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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - CESifo - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the …
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Government Deficits in the European Union: An Analysis of Entry and Exit Dynamics
Bayar, Ali; Smeets, Bram - CESifo - 2009
The extent of government deficits and debt has been one of the most debated issues in recent years. However, much less has been contributed about their dynamics. Yet, the issue of entering into and exiting from excessive deficits is critical in the Economic and Monetary Union since the Stability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013070
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Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care
Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - CESifo - 2013
Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear...
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - CESifo - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
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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 prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010
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...
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Margins and Market Shares: Pharmacy Incentives for Generic Substitution
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2012
We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies’ incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to purchase a generic version instead. We show that pharmacies’...
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Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2013
We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604418
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Introducing Activity-Based Payment in the Hospital Industry: Evidence from French Data
Choné, Philippe; Evain, Franck; Wilner, Lionel; … - CESifo - 2013
Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost reduction. The purpose of this work is to understand how the effect of such reforms depends on the intensity of local competition. We build a nonprice competition model to examine the...
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2009
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 costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number...
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