Confidence in a country’s health care system requires indemnification and deterrence systems that adequately cover liability, provide fair compensation for injury, and deter medical malpractices. Over the last years, in many OECD countries, these systems have experienced difficulties resulting...

Many centralized assignment systems seek to not only provide good matches for participants' current needs, but also to accommodate changes in preferences and circumstances. We study the problem of designing a dynamic reassignment mechanism in the context of Norway's system for allocating...

Abstract: Spätestens mit der Einführung des Wettbewerbs zwischen den gesetzlichen Kassen im Jahr 1996 hat eine Phase von grundlegenden Reformen des deutschen Gesundheitssystems begonnen, die bis heute anhält. Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich den Veränderungstendenzen im deutschen...