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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)
the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … consult more often and physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment … compared to the baseline and patients therefore consult more often. When the two institutions are combined, competition is …
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014
stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment compared to the baseline and … patients therefore consult more often. When the two institutions are combined, competition is found to partially offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413597
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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation; the German experience
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428257
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Demographische Effekte auf die zukünftigen Behandlungsausgaben und den zukünftigen Beitragssatz der GKV
Erbsland, Manfred - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000607892
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Long-term health insurance : theory meets evidence
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021
To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper, we study the German long-term health insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012672165
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Demographische Effekte auf die zukünftigen Behandlungsausgaben der GKV
Erbsland, Manfred - 1994
In this paper we predict the pure demographic effect on medical expenditure of the German Statutory Health Insurance Scheme. To isolate this effect, we assume that the age-specific expenditure for medical treatment as observed in 1991 remains constant over the whole prediction period (1991 until...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620371
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Demographische Effekte auf die zukünftigen Behandlungsausgaben und den zukünftigen Beitragssatz der GKV
Erbsland, Manfred - 1995
This paper analyses the pure demographic effect on medical expenditure and the contribution rate of the German Statutory Health Insurance Scheme. To isolate this effect, we assume that the age-specific expenditure for medical treatment as estimated in 1995 remains constant over the whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621821
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Demographische Effekte auf die zukünftigen Behandlungsausgaben der GKV : [3 Tabellen]
Erbsland, Manfred - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427971
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Search and equilibrium prices : theory and evidence from retail diesel
Cabral, Luís M. B.; Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2019 - This version: March 27, 2019
this prediction with diesel retail prices in Dortmund, Germany. We estimate a U-shaped relation with statistical precision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007152
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705210