switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by … policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German … federal regulation required health insurance companies to express price differences between health plans in absolute Euro …

Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit …-selection into different insurance contracts.We use a set of new variables in the German Socioeconomic Panel for the years 2002, 2004 …, and 2006 that measure individual health more accurately and include risk-attitudes towards health in order to determine …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service … quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary benefit provision on top of federally mandated benefits, and (iii) health plan …

By the mid-19th century, following the Prussian mining reform, German miners‘ combined mutual health and pension funds … took on the characteristics of social insurance and underwent a concentration process driven by mergers, liquidations, and … quantitative evidence from a regression model, provides new insights into the first social-insurance merger wave in Germany. While …

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a … perturbation in the insurance system. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the results indicate that after the policy …

Remuneration rates of German nursing homes are prospectively negotiated between long-term care insurance (LTCI) and …

, education, health status, etc. are associated with screening uptake within countries but cannot statistically explain cross …

In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to …