the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … whether he was perhaps overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients … found to partially offset the adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …

stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients consult more often and … adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …

-collected historical data on the number of livestock at the local level with microdata on eating habits, health outcomes, and food … individuals have a higher probability of being obese, having poor self-perceived health, and developing cancer. The effects are … consumption, and adult health. …

Health care markets in developed countries have become increasingly concentrated, while at the same time there has been … procedure market, a market that is an important part of the health care industry and patient care, but has received little … attention in this context. I use detailed nationwide register data from the Finnish private health care sector. My difference …

-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 (GLTHI) from a life-cycle perspective. The GLTHI is one of the few real …-world long-term health insurance markets. We first present and discuss insurer regulation, premium setting, and the main market …

physician. We combine insurance claims data with web-scraped physician reviews and highlight a substantial care-gap resulting …

inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which …

People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of … preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing … which an agent's decision to engage in health risk denial balances the psychological benefits of reduced anxiety with the …