on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …

state. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer …

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 …

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 …

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 …