Insuring Your Donation An Experiment

Loopholes undermine donation: An experiment motivated by an organ donation priority loophole in Israel

Giving registered organ donors priority on organ waiting lists, as has been implemented in Israel and Singapore, provides an incentive for registration and has the potential to increase the pool of deceased donor organs. However, the implementation of a priority rule might allow for loopholes — as is the case in Israel — in which an individual can register to receive priority but avoid ever bei...

Knowing Your Opponent: An Experiment on Auction Design with Asymmetries

Economists, when faced with undesirable bidder behavior in an auction, have often studied how changing the auction format can be beneficial. We study instead how changing the information available to bidders can change bidder behavior and increase the revenue an auction generates. We study common-value second-price auctions where bidders differ in the precision of their information (i.e., are e...

Insuring Health or Insuring Wealth? An Experimental Evaluation of Health Insurance in Rural Cambodia

We randomize the insurance premium for the SKY micro-health insurance program in rural Cambodia, allowing us to estimate the causal effects of health insurance on economic, health care utilization, and health outcomes. We nd that SKY insurance has its greatest impact on economic outcomes. SKY also changed health-seeking behavior, increasing the use of covered public facilities and decreasing th...

Insuring Liability Risks

Insuring emerging markets

8 The Journal of financial transformation As a result of domestic and external factors, capital flows to emerging market economies are highly volatile. All too often, these economies experience severe financial distress, which in some instances lead them to the country-equivalent of bankruptcy. Recently, the IMF and the U.S. Treasury have come up with plans to facilitate an orderly restructurin...