Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Exit, voice, or loyalty? an investigation into mandated portability of front-loaded private health plans

Notes: Sumario: We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private long-term health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to a newly mandated portability requirement of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the portability of standardized old-age provisions mandatory. Our theoretical model predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not increase external insurer switching. Moreover, the portability reform will enable unhealthier enrollees to reoptimize their plans. We find confirmatory evidence for the theoretical predictions using claims panel data from a big private insurer. Related records: En: The Journal of risk and insurance. - Nueva York : The American Risk and Insurance Association, 1964- = ISSN 0022-4367. - 02/09/2019 Volumen 86 Número 3 - septiembre 2019 , p. 697-727Materia / lugar / evento: Seguro de asistencia sanitaria Operaciones garantizadas a medio y largo plazo Longevidad Predicciones estadísticas Fidelización de clientes Alemania Otros autores: Atal, Juan Pablo
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