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Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

Acemoglu, Daron; Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

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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Health Care Quality and Economic Inequality

Jappelli, Tullio; Pistaferri, Luigi; Weber, Guglielmo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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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Economic Incentives and Hospitalization in Germany

Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

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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Technological adoption in health care

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

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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Public and Private Provision of Health Care

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries is the definition, by the third-party payer, of a set of preferred providers. The insured patients have different access rules to such providers when ill. The rules specify the...

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Extending Choice In English Health Care: The implications of the economic evidence

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Wilson, Deborah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to …

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...

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Provider competition and over-utilization in health care

Boone, Jan; Douven, Rudy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

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 each case. We argue that each of these can be optimal...

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Corporate Efficiency in Europe

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Shamshur, Anastasiya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter A; Holzner, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...

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