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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177111
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Physician density and infant mortality : a semiparametric analysis of the returns to health care provision
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … control function approach. Our results indicate that the marginal returns to physicians are highly nonlinear and decreasing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898604
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Physician effects in antibiotic prescribing : evidence from physician exits
Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2021
condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599029
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Does your doctor matter? : doctor quality and patient outcomes
Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255868
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Health service gatekeepers
Malcomson, James - 2003
Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treat-ment costs must...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511048
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Selling reputation when going out of business : presented at CEFifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation, March 2004
Hakenes, Hendrik; Peitz, Martin - CESifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation … - 2004
Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has to retire even though ownership change is observable? We consider a competitive market in which a share of owners must retire in each period. New owners, observing only recent profits, bid for the firms on sale. Customers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449475
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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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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Siciliani, Luigi (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612755
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Health values, preference inconsistency, and insurance demand
Wrede, Matthias (contributor) - 2005
Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300915
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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229860