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Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2013
We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...
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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 … structure, we show that the relationship between competition and quality is generally ambiguous. In contrast to the received …
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The Information Content of Capacity Utilisation Rates for Output Gap Estimates
Graff, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2021
From a theoretical perspective, the output gap is probably the most comprehensive and convincing concept to describe the cyclical position of an economy. Unfortunately, for practical purposes, the concept depends on the determination of potential output, which is an inherently unobservable...
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Hospital Treatment Rates and Spillover Effects : Does Ownership Matter?
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014
This paper studies the effect of hospital ownership on treatment rates allowing for spatial correlation among hospitals …. Competition among hospitals and knowledge spillovers generate significant externalities which we try to capture using the spatial … hospital ownership on treatment rates that depends upon the market structure where the hospital is located and which varies by …
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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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Do Market Incentives for Hospitals Affect Health and Service Utilization? Evidence from PPS-DRG Tariffs in Italian Regions
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2016
We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...
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First Do No Harm, Then Do Not Cheat : DRG Upcoding in German Neonatology
Juerges, Hendrik - 2013
the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …
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Using Fees to Reduce Bed-Blocking : A Game between Hospitals and Care Providers
Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2021
, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …
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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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Does Long-Term Care Subsidisation Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalisations?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
hospital admissions (both on the internal and external margin) and its duration or length of stay (LOS). We find robust … intense, among beneficiaries of publicly funded home care (amounting to 11% of total hospital costs), and among regions …
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