Dalen, Dag Morten; Moen, Espen R; Riis, Christian - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
patients within a predetermined period. However, this is not a simple mechanism that identi…es the hospital with the lowest … the patients are auctioned out to the hospitals. Our aim is to characterize principles as to how such an auction should be … designed. In the case of elective treatment, health authorities thus organize a competition between hospitals. The hospital …