Medicare to permit value-based insurance design in Medicare Advantage plans
By increasing costs at the point of service, moral hazard can be reduced and value increased. The optimal amount of cost sharing reflects a balance between the risk and income-transfer effects of insurance against the moral hazard costs. VBID relaxes ...
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Market mayhem reveals China's moral hazard
The 'kitchen sink' approach to the market's falls would also introduce a very substantial and distortive strain of moral hazard to China's markets -- an implicit guarantee of government intervention to limit investor losses. Once moral hazard is ...
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The Threat of 'Too Big To Fail' Banks
In turn, this form of moral hazard creates an incentive effect for banks to perform inefficiently and possibly creating economic losses. For instance, if the amount of investments in risky assets increases significantly then bailouts and public ...
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Imani Alert - 2009-2012 Budget Analyses Advise a Review of Healthcare Spending ...
Ghana's success story is encouraging but has to be relieved by the high number of exemptions through taxation (as cost to the government of exempting one poor individual from premiums is between US$ 15.87 to US$ 95.44) and the threat of moral hazard.
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Euro Architect Warns EU Bosses Against Superstate by Stealth
“On the one hand, this would create moral hazard. On the other, it would foster resistance against enforced transfers. Attempts to follow this path would be bound to lead to tensions that might even jeopardize the degree of integration that has been ...
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Chelsea 4-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv: Jose Mourinho earns reprieve with heavy European win
Chelsea claimed a moral-boosting victory to ease the pressure on manager Jose Mourinho after thumping Maccabi Tel Aviv in their Champions League opener at Stamford Bridge. Despite Eden Hazard's missed penalty, Willian, Oscar, substitute Diego Costa ...
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The cutting edge of moral hazard is the collapse of a banking system
Greece has set the new high price of “moral hazard.” Emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) from the European Central Bank now is estimated to exceed €100 billion. It continues to rise. The population of Greece is approximately 11 million people.
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Low interest rates have served their day, now they're causing problems of ...
These days, "moral hazard" might be a better description. The Federal Reserve is likely to raise its benchmark lending rate (for the first time since 2006) this year - possibly next month. It will be the most-telegraphed, most talked-about rate rise in ...
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ECB Adds 'Moral Hazard' to Emergency Liquidity Assistance Rules
The European Central Bank warned that “moral hazard” could be a reason to object to the emergency liquidity assistance it allows lenders to access, just a day after it tightened conditions on the aid for Greece. The Eurosystem's functioning could be ...
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Gold prices likely to trade positive: Sushil Finance
The lack of RMB volatility, and the perceived one-way appreciation of the RMB created moral hazard where corporate chief financial officers were incentivized to profit from having assets in RMB and liabilities in U.S. dollars. As a result the ...
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Environment Encyclical Is 'Well Intentioned, Deeply Flawed'
Does anyone doubt that, if the world faces another series of major bank failures, governments will behave in exactly the same way, thereby reinforcing the moral hazard problem that's at the root of so much of the financial sector's on-going ...
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Refugee policies give Australia's global reputation a beating
It was also a tactic replete with moral hazard – wouldn't local Indonesians be encouraged to join people-smuggling ventures knowing there could be an opportunity for a financial bonus if they were caught by the Australians? "We would certainly urge all ...
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Did Christie Really Say that College Girls Can Sell Themselves to Pay Tuition?
According to Simkovic, such a system would contribute to “moral hazard” by encouraging borrowers to sacrifice earning potential, long hours and hard, potentially unpleasant work for lower-paying, less stressful careers. What a nightmare for the Powers ...
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