When Social Assistance Meets Market Power: A Mixed Duopoly View of Health Insurance in the United States
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Keywords
mixed duopoly; quality differentiation; public provision of private goods; distribution;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
- H44 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- L38 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Public Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2021-06-28 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-HEA-2021-06-28 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IND-2021-06-28 (Industrial Organization)
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