The Economics of Health Insurance

The course covers the economics of health care taking a microeconomic perspective. The course focusses on the market for health insurance and its imperfections that originate from the specific characteristics of health as a commodity and result in market failure and hence undesirable market outcomes such as adverse selection, moral hazard, and risk selection. Based on the theoretical analysis implications for the question of how to design a health (insurance) system are derived.

Dates

The course is taught every Summer semester.

Detailed Information

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