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

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

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

experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that … facilitates the estimation of marginal utilities of various attributes of a composite non-traded health-care service. Discrete … is that preferences for health-care attributes are significantly changed as a result of experience with the health event …

as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for … basic findings are that preferences change significantly as a result of experience with the health event; that the effect of …

A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived … with non-tangible attributes. A health-care event is used for empirical illustration: The loss aversion theory is tested …

What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about … their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show …

We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice …