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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...

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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 …

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Optimal lockdown in altruistic economies

Bosi, Stefano; Camacho, Carmen; Desmarchelier, David - 2020

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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...

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Vaccination under pessimistic expectations in clinical trials and immunization campaigns

Albis, Hippolyte d’; Etner, Johanna; Thuilliez, Josselin - 2022

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Static and dynamic efficiency of irreversible health care investments under alternative payment rules

Levaggi, Rosella; Moretto, Michele; Pertile, Paolo - 2010

The paper studies the incentive for providers to invest in new health care technologies under alternative payment systems, when the patients' benefits are uncertain. If the reimbursement by the purchaser includes both a variable (per patient) and a lump-sum component, efficiency can be ensured...

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Consumer resistance against regulation : the case of health care

Zweifel, Peter (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor); … - 2005

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...

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Multi-state health transition modeling using neural networks

Wang, Qiqi; Hanewald, Katja; Wang, Xiaojun - 2020

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Is health care infected by Baumol's cost disease? : test of a new model

Atanda, Akinwande A.; Menclova, Andrea Kutinova; Reed, … - 2017 - Revision

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Common stochastic trends in international stock prices and dividends : an example of testing overidentifying restrictions on multiple cointegration vectors

Engsted, Tom; Lund, Jesper - 1994

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