, 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 physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the … driven by unobserved differences across doctors. Finally, we show that patients are unable to identify who the high …

primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from Sweden and an effectively random assignment of patients to nurses …, who differ in their propensity to direct patients to online versus in-person consultations. Our findings reveal that … online’s advantages for different patients and how to improve hybrid organizations’ cost effectiveness. …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …

(and therefore reduce 'skimping' on such patients). -- hospital competition ; soft budgets ; quality ; cost efficiency … allow for heterogeneity in costs and qualities, we also show that a softer budget can raise quality for high-cost patients …

health care services among hospitals patients. These effects were stronger for adoptions occurring when also the national …

, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform … and patients' health, and the optimal discharge date before the reform. Testing the results with data, we find a large …

This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to … of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity …

death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995 - 2010. The estimates indicate that … increases in the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but … 62% of the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …