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Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …

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Extending Choice In English Health Care: The implications of the economic evidence

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Wilson, Deborah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to … health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to attract business. The paper …

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Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin; Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on …

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Competition, Equity and Quality in HealthCare

Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …

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Can governments do it better? Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS

Gaynor, Martin; Laudicella, Mauro; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

half the short term general hospitals were involved in a merger, but that politics means that selection for a merger may be …

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Does quality affect patients’ choice of doctor? Evidence from the UK

Gravelle, Hugh S; Propper, Carol; Santos, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

important part of the health care market using data on the choices made by 3.4 million English patients from amongst nearly 1000 …

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karin; Jenkins, Stephen P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

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Do Consumers Care About How Prices Are Set?

Courty, Pascal; Pagliero, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a survey approach, we ask consumers to reveal their preferences over pricing schemes that may differ in terms of the average price of consumption, the amount of price variation, and the probability of being rationed. We find that consumers dislike pricing schemes that vary prices more but...

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Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies

Courty, Pascal; Pagliero, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Pricing schemes that vary prices in response to demand shocks may antagonize consumers and reduce demand. At the same time, consumers may take advantage of the opportunities offered by price changes. Overall, the net impact of varying price on demand is ambiguous. We investigate the issue...

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Does Responsive Pricing Smooth Demand Shocks?

Courty, Pascal; Pagliero, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Using data from a unique pricing experiment, we investigate Vickrey’s conjecture that responsive pricing can be used to smooth both predictable and unpredictable demand shocks. Our evidence shows that increasing the responsiveness of price to demand conditions reduces the magnitude of...

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