The implementation of activity-based payment system named T2A—tarification à l’activité—in 2004 profoundly modified the financing of French hospitals. Presently applied to activities concerning medicine, surgery and obstetrics, the pricing for these activities was developed using the...

Within a Mirrlees framework of optimal taxation, we add a new heterogeneity between individuals who differ not only in their marginal productivity, but also in their initial endowment of a good which is interpreted as aggregate consumption. We consider other goods, such as public hospital care...

[fre] Nous analysons l'impact du revenu sur la probabilité d'avoir une consultation médicale à partir de l'Enquête Santé 1991-1992. Nous montrons que l'accès aux soins reste plus difficile pour les personnes ayant un faible revenu même si elles disposent d'une assurance complémentaire....

We analyze the income effect on the probability of visiting a doctor from a french survey. We show that for people with low income this probability is increasing with income, even if they have a private insurance. Références JEL : C25, I12

Within a framework of optimal taxation a la Mirrlees, we add a new heterogeneity between the individuals who differ not only on their marginal productivity, but also on their initial endowment in a good which is interpreted as an aggregate consumption. We consider other goods in the economy...