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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - CESifo - 2014
This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948817
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2009
costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000366
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Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2007
This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416510
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Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives
Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Byung-Cheol - CESifo - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers (CPs), and their implications for social welfare. We show that the ISP’s decision on the introduction of discrimination across content depends on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196250