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Provider Insurance

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  • Michael Manove

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Provider insurance is insurance offered by the provider of a product or service against losses or damages incurred in connection with the use of that product or service. It is demonstrated that a rate-setting agency, with no information about consumers, can design a provider-insurance mechanism that induces both the provider and the consumer to reduce losses efficiently, and, at the same time, transfers risk from the (risk-averse) consumer to the (risk-neutral) provider without moral hazard. The structure of the optimal provider-insurance mechanism is derived. The optimal mechanism must be imposed on a noncompetitive industry by regulators, but it can arise spontaneously in competitive industries and can be sustained.

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  • Michael Manove, 1983. "Provider Insurance," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 14(2), pages 489-496, Autumn.
    • Handle: RePEc:rje:bellje:v:14:y:1983:i:autumn:p:489-496
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    1. Claudia Mejía Pérez, 1999. "La pobreza en Colombia 1978 y 1995 : indicadores," Lecturas de Economía, Universidad de Antioquia, Departamento de Economía, issue 51, pages 195-222, Julio Dic.

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