One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries … reimbursement scheme when decisions on prices and qualities are taken simultaneously (that we relate to primary health-care sectors … solution when decisions are sequential (specialized health-care sector). We also derive some normative conclusions on the way …

We estimate the impact of health insurance coverage beyond National Health Insurance on the demand for several health … on the most common health insurance plan in Portugal, ADSE, which is given to all civil servants and their dependants. We … argue this insurance is exogenous i.e. not correlated with beneficiaries’ health status. This identifying assumption allows …

characterization of patient selection. …

innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … approaches the technology frontier, selection becomes more important. As a result, countries at early stages of development … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …

insurance and preferences are nonseparable. This result appears to support the conclusion of the above mentioned folk theorem …

, equilibrium wage dispersion is necessary for the economy to approximate efficiency. Without wage dispersion, workers do not search …