Principles of Economics (12th Edition)
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Author: Karl E. Case, Ray C. Fair, Sharon E. Oster
Publisher: PEARSON
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How the group medical coverage helps to reduce the problem of adverse selection.
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- Distinguish between adverse selection and moral hazard as they relate to the insurance industry.arrow_forwardDescribe the challenges that adverseselection and moral hazard pose for insurance.arrow_forwardJenny believes that the unwillingness to buy insurance by young healthy people creates a moral hazard problem for health insurance companies. Diego disagrees, and believes that their unwillingness to buy health insurance creates an adverse selection problem. Who is right? Explain.arrow_forward
- It was taught that liability insurance would undermine the tort system, which has as its central theorem the concept that the individual responsible for injuring another should be made to pay for that injury. Do you think the existence of liability insurance causes one to be less careful than he or she might otherwise be?arrow_forwardDistinguish the difference between adverse selection and moral hazard.arrow_forwardBriefly explain what it means for information to be asymmetric. a. What is Moral Hazard? b. Identify and briefly explain three methods that insurance companies could use to off-set the moral hazard associated with their industry. c. What is Adverse Selection?arrow_forward
- Adverse Selection refers to a situation in insurance markets in which individuals change their behavior after obtaining coverage, resulting in increased insurance costs True or Falsearrow_forwardIn the mid-1990s, the state of New Jersey revised its rules for the individual insurance market and began requiring that insurers charge the same premiums for the same coverage to all applicants. Assuming that insurers had previously used medical underwriting, which of the following is a predictable consequence of adverse selection? 1) Insurance becomes less attractive to the healthiest individuals, so fewer of them buy it 2) Insurers’ average costs of providing coverage increase because of a changing risk pool 3) The average age of those buying in the individual market goes up 4) All of the abovearrow_forwardWhat is the significance when it comes to moral hazard to show it's efficient function of a medical market?arrow_forward
- Don't use pen or paperarrow_forwardProvide an intuitive discussion of how adverse selection affects the used-car market. Describe one potential signal that can help alleviate the problem of adverse selection in this market and discuss how this signal satisfies the two necessary assumptions for it to be used as a credible signal.arrow_forwardhow would the adverse selection problem arise in the insurance market? How is it like the lemon used car problem?arrow_forward
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