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The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Anti-Diabetics
Duso, Tomaso; Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
We investigate the welfare impact of parallel imports using a large panel data set containing monthly information on sales, ex-factory prices, and further product characteristics for all 700 anti-diabetic drugs sold in Germany between 2004 and 2010. We estimate a two-stage nested logit model of...
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Wettbewerb aller Krankenversicherungen kann Qualität verbessern und Kosten des Gesundheitswesens senken
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Edener, Birgit; Grabka, Markus; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
implement increased competition in the health insurance system of Germany (or somewhere else), detailed analyses are needed and …A draft of a reform towards "socially bounded competition" within the health care system indicates, first of all, that … several areas of such an insurance system would have to be regulated by the state. Such a reform is much more complicated than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963617
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Optionen der Weiterentwicklung des Risikostrukturausgleichs in der GKV
Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
competition among funds, others argue that there are still funds which engage heavily in risk selection and are thereby able to … preserving incentives for an efficient delivery of health care services. In particular, we examine the inclusion of additional … possible to improve the formula without diminishing the incentives for efficiency if the risk adjusters "income" and "marital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963882
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Die Einführung der Praxisgebühr und ihre Wirkung auf die Zahl der Arztkontakte und die Kontaktfrequenz: eine empirische Analyse
Grabka, Markus M.; Schreyögg, Jonas; Busse, Reinhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
As part of the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act a co-payment of €10 per quarter for the first contact at a … consolidation of the Statutory Health Insurance the co-payment aimed at changing the patients' behaviour towards more … physician contacts still take place e.g. in case of disabled persons and persons with poor health. In addition no discrimination …
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Kassenwechsel in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung: welche Rolle spielt der Beitragssatz?
Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
It is currently intensively discussed whether the system of risk structure adjustment (RSA) among German statutory sickness funds should be supplemented by morbidity indicators. It has been showed that employees who change their sickness funds are better risks and thus shift the morbidity...
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Health Insurance Status and Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Services in Germany: New Evidence from Combined District and Individual Level Data
Jürges, Hendrik - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both … types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as … induce demand primarily among the privately insured. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effects of insurance status …
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First Do No Harm. Then Do Not Cheat: DRG Upcoding in German Neonatology
Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein, Juliane - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …
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The Impact of Displacement on Child Health: Evidence from Colombia's DHS 2010
Wald, Nina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
status; (iii) affiliation to a health insurance; and (iv) having a health problem last month. Overall, a negative … cohorts are significantly less likely to have health insurance. …This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age …
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Speculative Price Bubbles in Urban Housing Markets in Germany
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Michelsen, Claus; Ulbricht, Dirk - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
The surge in the German house prices starting in 2010 raised fears about the emergence of a speculative bubble. Given a local nature of housing markets, it is not clear to what extent the bubble, if any, is spread across different cities. In this paper, we test for speculative house price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942857
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Unobservable, but Unimportant?: The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption (“selection on observables … selection bias. This is especially relevant in light of the research on the influence of personality traits and attitudes on … play a significant role for selection into treatment and labor market outcomes, but do not make for the most part a …
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