Insurance Search and Switching Behavior
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- Bolhaar, Jonneke & Lindeboom, Maarten & van der Klaauw, Bas, 2010. "Insurance Search and Switching Behavior," CEPR Discussion Papers 7942, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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health insurance; consumer search behavior; Dutch health insurance reform;JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IAS-2011-02-26 (Insurance Economics)
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