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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...
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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
We examine whether parties punish politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. Using data of German members of parliament over the legislative period 2009-2013, we take into account that the effect of punishment differs along the list of candidates because a candidate is...
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Do Norms on Contribution Behavior Affect Intrinsic Motivation? Field-Experimental Evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre - 2016
the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is …
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
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The Dynamics of Dictator Behavior
Sass, Markus; Timme, Florian; Weimann, Joachim - 2021
Choosing between selfish and non-selfish behavior in real life is a repeated decision with varying time spans between repetitions. To learn more about the dynamics of altruistic behavior, we use repeated standard dictator experiments. The dynamics of prosocial behavior in these experiments...
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Bargaining with Two-Person-Groups - On the Insignificance of the Patient Partner
Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2013
Although many real bargaining situations involve more than two people, much of the theoretical and experimental research concentrates on the two player situation. We study the simplest possible extension: four people (two two-person groups) of different patience bargain with each other....
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A Probability Approach to Pharmaceutical Demand and Price Setting : Does the Identity of the Third-Party Payer Matters for Prescribing Doctors?
Dalen, Dag Morten - 2011
TNF-alpha inhibitors represent one of the most important areas of biopharmaceuticals by sales, with three blockbusters accounting for 8 per cent of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. Novelty of the paper is to examine, with the use of a unique natural policy experiment in Norway, to what...
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Competition and Physician Behaviour : Does the Competitive Environment Affect the Propensity to Issue Sickness Certificates?
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2017
Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … addition to own practice, work in local emergency centres, where the matching of patients to GPs is random. This allows us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944981
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Wages Anatomy. Labor Supply of Nurses and a Comparison with Physicians
Andreassen, Leif - 2014
are young (less than physicians), but there is also a weak tendency of higher mobility again when they are approaching … physicians). These low elasticities shadow for stronger responses, shifting labor away from part time jobs in the public and … physicians the impact is stronger …
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Do Medical Doctors Respond to Economic Incentives?
Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria L.; Strøm, Steinar - 2021
A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The … model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of … cut moves married physicians towards full time job packages, in particular to full time jobs in the private sector. But …
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