A medical test that an insurance company could use to distinguish between high- and low-risk types would

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A medical test that an insurance company could use to distinguish between high- and low-risk types would create an equilibrium in which both high- and low-risk types could have full insurance. Sketch a brief proof using a diagram. Why is this equilibrium not an equilibrium under the normal information asymmetry assumptions?

Show which of the three equilibrium criteria does not hold.

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Health Economics

ISBN: 9781137029966

1st Edition

Authors: Jay Bhattacharya, Timothy Hyde, Peter Tu

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