more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector … receive a low benefit from health care because quality is low then higher inequality aversion increases the optimal level of …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

state. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer …

health gains, providers’ altruism and the opportunity cost of public funds. We derive optimal prices for processes … incentivised in the Best Practice Tariffs for emergency stroke care in the English National Health Service. Based on published … estimates, we compare these to the prices set by the English Department of Health. We find that actual tariffs were lower than …

We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two …

: a) providers differ in efficiency and there are two types of provider; b) efficiency is private information (adverse … selection); c) providers are partially altruistic or intrinsically motivated; d) they have limited liability. Four types of …