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The different effect of consumer learning on incentives to differentiate in Cournot and Bertrand competition

Conze, Maximilian; Kramm, Michael - 2017

Brander and Spencer (2015a,b), to analyze the effect of consumer learning on firms' incentives to differentiate their products … more likely to invest in differentiation with consumer learning than without. This is in line with implications of the … firms compete in prices. Here, the effect of consumer learning is reversed, so that differentiation is less likely with …

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Quality competition and hospital mergers : an experiment

Han, Johann; Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Vomhof, Markus - 2016

Based on a Salop model with regulated prices, we investigate quality provision behavior of competing hospitals before and after a merger. For this, we use a controlled laboratory experiment where subjects decide on the level of treatment quality as head of a hospital. We find that the...

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The effects of competition on medical service provision

Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Hehenkamp, Burkhard; Kokot, Johanna - 2016

We explore how competition between physicians affects medical service provision. Previous research has shown that, without competition, physicians deviate from patient-optimal treatment under payment systems like capitation and fee-for-service. While competition might reduce these distortions,...

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How do consumers choose health insurance? : an experiment on heterogeneity in attribute tastes and risk preferences

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Kokot, Johanna; Vomhof, Markus; … - 2014

Recent health policy reforms try to increase consumer choice. We use a laboratory experiment to analyze consumers’ tastes in typical contract attributes of health insurances and to investigate their relationship with individual risk preferences. First, subjects make consecutive insurance...

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The effects of introducing mixed payment systems for physicians : experimental evidence

Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; … - 2015

Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through fee-for-service and capitation. While theory shows mixed payment systems to be superior, empirically, causal effects on physicians’ behavior are not well understood when introducing mixed systems. We...

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Sorting into physician payment schemes : a laboratory experiment

Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Kokot, … - 2014

Most common physician payment schemes include some form of traditional capitation or fee-for-service payment. While health economics research often focuses on direct incentive effects of these payments, we demonstrate that the opportunity to sort into one’s preferred payment scheme may also...

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Physician performance pay : evidence from a laboratory experiment

Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; … - 2016

We present causal evidence from a controlled experiment on the effect of pay for performance on physicians' behavior and patients' health benefits. At a within-subject level, we introduce performance pay to complement either fee-for-service or capitation. Performance pay is granted if a health...

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The recommendation effect in the hotelling game : a new result for an old model

Conze, Maximilian; Kramm, Michael - 2013

Hotellings berühmtes "Prinzip der minimalen Differenzierung" behauptet, dass zwei Firmen, die sich miteinander in räumlichem Wettbewerb befinden, dieselbe Position wählen. Wenn man räumlichen Wettbewerb als Modellierung von Produktdifferenzierung versteht, bedeutet dieses, dass die Firmen...

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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? : evidence from employees' training participation

Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016

Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...

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