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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
Health Plan Choice Abstract: This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers’ decision to … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533926
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How Health Plan Enrollees Value Prices Relative to Supplemental Benefits and Service Quality
Tauchmann, Harald; Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206293
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Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health-Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867–1914
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Streb, Jochen - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
The Knappschaft underlies Bismarck’s sickness and accident insurance legislation (1883 and 1884), which in turn forms the basis of the German social-insurance system today and, indirectly, many social-insurance systems around the world. The Knappschaften were formed in the medieval period to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518186
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Explaining Differences in Remuneration Rates of Nursing Homes in Germany
Mennicken, Roman; Augurzky, Boris; Rothgang, Heinz; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
Remuneration rates of German nursing homes are prospectively negotiated between long-term care insurance (LTCI) and social assistance on the one side and nursing homes on the other. They diff er considerably across regions while there is no evidence for substantial differences in care provision....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691994
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Explaining Variations in Breast Cancer Screening Across European Countries
Wübker, Ansgar - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
, education, health status, etc. are associated with screening uptake within countries but cannot statistically explain cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860278
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How do Non-Monetary Performance Incentives for Physicians Affect the Quality of Medical Care? – A Laboratory Experiment
Kairies, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010663702
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P4P, Reputation and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision
Kairies, Nadja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548063
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Altruism Heterogeneity and Quality Competition Among Healthcare Providers
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934834
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Is there a Future for Small Hospitals in Germany?
Augurzky, Boris; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
We analyse the fi nancial performance of small German hospitals based on balance sheet data of about 1,000 hospitals in 2007. Measures of fi nancial performance are the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) and the probability of default (PD). We fi nd that, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641785
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Smoking in Germany: Stylized Facts, Behavioral Models, and Health Policy
Göhlmann, Silja; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
It is well known that smoking causes severe adverse health effects, and it seems evident that governments are justified … economic and health policy are, whether government action is justified at all, what behavioral patterns this policy should try …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561963