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Asymmetric information in late 19th century cooperative insurance societies

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  • Gottlieb, Daniel, 2007. "Asymmetric information in late 19th century cooperative insurance societies," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 44(2), pages 270-292, April.
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    3. Guinnane, Timothy W. & Streb, Jochen, 2011. "Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867–1914," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 71(1), pages 70-104, March.
    4. Lars Fredrik Andersson & Liselotte Eriksson & Paul Nystedt, 2022. "Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth‐century Sweden†," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(1), pages 203-234, February.
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    7. Stanfors, Maria & Karlsson, Tobias & Andersson, Lars-Fredrik & Eriksson, Liselotte, 2022. "Membership in Mutual Health Insurance Societies: The Case of Swedish Manufacturing, circa 1900," Lund Papers in Economic History 238, Lund University, Department of Economic History.
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