López Nicolás, Ángel; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - In: Journal of Health Economics 27 (2008) 5, pp. 1285-1298
This paper develops an empirical strategy to estimate whether subsidies to private medical insurance are self-financing in countries where public and private insurance coexist and the latter covers the same treatments as the former. We construct a simulation routine based on a micro-econometric...