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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067537
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083309
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084725
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067349
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Moral and Social Constraints to Strategic Default on Mortgages
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We use survey data to study American households’ propensity to default when the value of their mortgage exceeds the value of their house even if they can afford to pay their mortgage (strategic default). We find that 26% of the existing defaults are strategic. We also find that no household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039578
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Uncertainty and Consumer Durables Adjustment
Bertola, Giuseppe; Guiso, Luigi; Pistaferri, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
size of stock adjustment decisions, and find broad support for theoretical predictions in formal selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114208
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Background Uncertainty and the Demand for Insurance Against Insurable Risks
Guiso, Luigi; Jappelli, Tullio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Theory suggests that people facing higher uninsurable background risk buy more insurance against other risks that are … casualty insurance increases with earnings uncertainty. This finding is consistent with consumer preferences being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123926