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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083844
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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293984
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Multitasking, Quality and Pay for Performance
Kaarboe, Oddvar Martin; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791404
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Performance Indicators for Quality with Adverse Selection, Gaming and Inequality Aversion
Kuhn, Michael; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123654
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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498167
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Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets: a Differential-Game Approach
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504502
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854479
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Hospital competition with soft budgets
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
state. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083526
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083932