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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136650
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Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2013
. Softer budgets reduce cost efficiency, while the effect on quality is ambiguous. For given cost efficiency, softer budgets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087727
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010
We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number...
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The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products Under Imperfect Competition
Bardey, David - 2015
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the … are considered. The insurance contract specifies two types of copayments: an ad valorem coinsurance rate and a specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026624
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Nursing Home Choice, Family Bargaining and Optimal Policy in a Hotelling Economy
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2016
The family plays a central role in decisions relative to the provision of long term care (LTC). We develop a model of family bargaining to study the impact of the distribution of bargaining power within the family on the choices of nursing homes, and on the location and prices chosen by nursing...
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Sustainable Reimbursements : Towards a Unified Framework for Pricing Drugs with Significant Uncertainties
Chassang, Sylvain - 2018
Recent political events have thrust the bulk negotiation of drug prices by Medicare and Medicaid back into the spotlight. Yet, even if politically feasible, there is no clear framework for negotiating prices of new drugs with uncertain target populations — for example, due to imprecise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925248
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Average-Cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - 2021
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; … - 2021
on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315635
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Reference Pricing of Pharmaceuticals
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Königbauer, Ingrid; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
distorts drug choices most, exposing patients to higher health risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317373
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Robust Growth Determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011
This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...
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