, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency of service provision. We test these predictions using a difference in … not subject to the same CPA regime. To do this, we construct original indices of service quality and efficiency, using … efficiency indices. There is evidence of heterogeneous effects of CPA on efficiency, with some evidence that CPA impacted more on …

heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear price schedule in the German statutory health insurance system. In … administrative insurance claims data from the largest German health insurance plan, we find that some individuals strongly react to …Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well …-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation …

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets …