We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in …

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 …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect … of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the … copayment instruments leads to the same reimbursement rule of individual expenditures as under perfect competition for medical … products. Additional rationing of coverage because of imperfect competition as advocated by Feldstein (1973) is thus not …

We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using …