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Obradovits, Martin; Plaickner, hilipp - 2020

When experts have superior information on their customers' needs and appropriate treatment/repair/advice is a credence … good, there are obvious incentives for opportunistic behavior. What compounds this is that experts regularly make treatment …

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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment

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In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of physicians' market shares. Medical treatment is an example...

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In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients in a stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical treatment is an example of a credence good: only the...

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