Based on the institutional perspective, this article examines whether pressures in home and host countries affect multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices distance between moderates these relationships. We collect data from 185 Chinese MNEs’ 349 foreign subsidiaries operating 27 conduct a cross-classified multilevel model analysis of data. The...

This paper uses individual level data to analyze the effect of changes in the compulsory benefit package of the German statutory health insurance scheme on the demand for private supplementary insurance. In particular, we aim at measuring the effect of excluding dentures from the benefit package in 1997 as well as the effect of re-including them in 1999.A difference-in-differences estimator is ...

This paper examines the role of the federal government in the market for terrorism reinsurance. We investigate the stock price response of affected industries to a sequence of 13 events culminating in the enactment of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) of 2002. In the industries most likely to be affected by TRIA—banking, construction, insurance, real estate investment trusts, transportati...

This paper analyzes the consequences of parallel trade on health care systems in a two-country model with a vertical distributor relationship. In particular, two cost-sharing systems — coinsurance and indemnity insurance — are compared with respect to changes in copayments and public health expenditure. Under both cost-sharing systems, parallel trade generates a price-decreasing competition eff...

Impact of China’s Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents. We estimate the impact of this program on health care u...

This paper discusses a class of risk measures developed from a risk measure recently proposed for insurance pricing. This paper reviews the distortion function approach developed in the actuarial literature for insurance risk. The proportional hazards transform is a particular case. The relationship between this approach to risk and other approaches including the dual theory of choice under ris...

Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis We extend prior research on the effect of managed care on the receipt of four medical interventions for pregnant women: ultrasound, induction/stimulation of birth, electronic fetal monitor, and cesarean delivery. Propensity score methods are used to account for sample selection ...

Most Americans obtain access to health insurance through an employer. In this paper, we ask how the link between health insurance and employment affects labor market choices such as whether to work fulltime. To understand the effect of the incentives embedded in the employer-based insurance system, we study the joint decision-making of husbands and wives that determines the household’s access t...

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to defining nature, types, and role formal informal insurance market institutions. Methodology research. methodological basis work has become a systematic approach study formation functioning institutions; as well dialectical method cognition grouping determine types institutions that have formed ensure development relationships. Methods induction deductio...