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Gatekeeping in health care
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Nuscheler, Robert (contributor) - 2005
We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201758
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The Public-Private Mix in the Modern Health Care System - Concepts, Issues, and Policy Options Revisited
Chernichovsky, Dov - 2000
Private financing of care can make universal entitlement to care more comprehensive' and complete.' The possible combination -- at the point of service provision -- of privately acquired entitlement with the public entitlement, can impinge, however, upon the goals (e.g. improved health, equity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470856
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Optimal lockdown and social welfare
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2020
This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the … postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social …-maximal lockdown saving lives at the cost of reducing average utility at a given period, there exists always a stricter lockdown, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313558
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A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown
Alvarez, Fernando E. - 2020
We study the optimal lockdown policy for a planner who wants to control the fatalities of a pandemic while minimizing … the output costs of the lockdown. We use the SIR epidemiology model and a linear economy to formalize the planner … parametrize the model using data on the COVID19 pandemic and the economic breadth of the lockdown. The quantitative analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481937
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Pandemic Lockdown : The Role of Government Commitment
Moser, Christian A. - 2020
This paper studies optimal lockdown policies in a dynamic economy without government commitment. A lockdown imposes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482019
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Maximize Utility subject to R≤1 : A Simple Price-Theory Approach to Covid-19 Lockdown and Reopening Policy
Budish, Eric - 2020
This paper presents a simple price-theory approach to Covid-19 lockdown and reopening policy. The key idea is to … formulation provides economics language for a policy middle ground between society-wide lockdown and ignore-the-virus, and a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482312
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Concerns for equity and the optimal co-payments for publicly provided health care
Hoel, Michael (contributor) - 2005
In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy decisions, it is often argued that an increase in co-payments is unacceptable as it will be particularly harmful to the less well-off in society. The present paper derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297601
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A Simple Model of Social Distancing and Vaccination
Avery, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper analyzes a simple model of infectious disease where the incentives for individuals to reduce risks through endogenous social distancing take straightforward cost-benefit form. Since disease is transmitted through social interactions, the threat of spread of infection poses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696372
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The Choice of Health Policies with Heterogeneous Populations
Zeckhauser, Richard J. - 1980
Deciding whether to fund a given health program involves both statistical and ethical issues. Traditional statistical methods of measuring program effectiveness may give misleading results unless careful attention is paid to the question of population heterogeneity. Even within particular age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478513
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Regressive Sin Taxes, With an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax
Allcott, Hunt - 2019
A common objection to "sin taxes"--corrective taxes on goods that are thought to be overconsumed, such as cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks--is that they often fall disproportionately on low-income consumers. This paper studies the interaction between corrective and redistributive motives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479790