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Optimal Risk Adjustment: The Trade-off between Risk Selection and Upcoding

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  • Nuscheler, Robert
  • Vaclahovsky, Simon

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  • Nuscheler, Robert & Vaclahovsky, Simon, 2023. "Optimal Risk Adjustment: The Trade-off between Risk Selection and Upcoding," VfS Annual Conference 2023 (Regensburg): Growth and the "sociale Frage" 277663, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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