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This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in …
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health care. The review considers several interlocking aspects of the current English choice policy: competition between … concludes that there is neither strong theoretical nor empirical support for competition, but that there are cases where … competition has improved outcomes. The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of this literature for policies to promote …
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physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the … university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same …
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We argue that health care quality has an important impact on economic inequality and on saving behaviour. We exploit district-wide variability in health care quality provided by the Italian universal public health system to identify the effect of quality on income inequality, health inequality...
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The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular, have been of prior concern to policy and to research. Using a rich panel data set this paper contributes to this literature by investigating factors determining the demand for...
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This paper addresses the impact of payment systems on the rate of technology adoption. We present a model where technological shift is driven by demand uncertainty, increased patients' benefit, financial variables, and the reimbursement system to providers. Two payment systems are studied: cost...
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. We propose to study the competitive process among providers in terms of both prices and qualities. Competition is …
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Uganda is able to price-discriminate less effectively than public institutions with less competition from the private sector. …
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Health expenditures as a share of GDP have more than tripled over the last half century. A common conjecture is that this is primarily a consequence of rising real per capita income, which more than doubled over the same period. We investigate this hypothesis empirically by instrumenting for...
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provision or cheap talk, and competition inherent to social media may incentivize participants to either process better …, we find evidence that social media can be informative about future stock returns but that competition distorts opinions … rather than encouraging participants to process better information. In particular, competition induces exaggerated negative …
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