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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Rothschild-Stiglitz: Second Best Problem<br />

Firms cannot distinguish types in practice, because they cannot<br />

determine true layoff risks, illness history, etc.<br />

With contracts above, all the high risk types buy the low risk’s<br />

contract and insurer goes out of business<br />

Hence optimal contracts differ when information is asymmetric<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 17 / 207

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