MANKIW: PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS
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Problem ofmoral hazard and adverse selection.
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- How does moral hazard issue affect the health care market in Hong Kong? Suggest possible remedies to alleviate the problems.arrow_forwardName two solutions to adverse selection in insurance and explain how they work.arrow_forwardWhat is the significance when it comes to moral hazard to show it's efficient function of a medical market?arrow_forward
- Describe 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_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
- Suppose an individual saves as precaution against adverse events, like unemployment. This is an example of a-adverse selection b-self-insurance c-adverse saving d-moral hazardarrow_forwardSuppose that a person's utility function is the square root of wealth. Suppose the person earns $100,000 per year. He or she has an illness with a probability of 0.2, and the cost of the treatment is $30,000. Would the person pay $6,000 for insurance? Why or why not? What is the most this person would pay to be insured (hint: equate expected utility to utility with certainty)? Suppose their utility function changed to wealth squared (hint: are they now risk averse?). Would they pay $6,000 for insurance? Why or why not?arrow_forwardDifferentiate between adverse selection and moral hazard problems with one examplesarrow_forward
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