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Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider : a measurement error approach
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507834
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Average-cost pricing and dynamic selection incentives in the hospital sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412307
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Recession depression : mental health effects of the 2008 stock market crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - 2013
How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well …-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748354
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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
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 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444108
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Does your doctor matter? : doctor quality and patient outcomes
Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality in an entire country, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that there is substantial variation in the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255868
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250155
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850156
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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 … consumer welfare than premia competition when switching between insurance companies is costly. -- health care reform … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698408
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Price regulation and parallel imports of pharmaceuticals
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2015
(absence) of parallel imports. Our results suggest that price regulation might improve static efficiency without being harmful … for dynamic efficiency in the presence of parallel imports. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305382