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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Ellis and McGuire Model: Limitations<br />

Ignores cream-skimming by doctors if they must bear costs<br />

Doctors assumed to be risk neutral<br />

Static model: ignores technological change and incentives to innovate<br />

Finkelstein (2004): policies intended to change utilization of vaccines<br />

led to more innovation, some of which may have been unproductive<br />

Would be useful to derive an empirically implementable formula for β ∗<br />

Ex: use doctors’treatment of themselves or kids/relatives<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 202 / 207

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