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In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients, we study … physicians' market shares. Medical treatment is an example of a credence good: only the physician knows the appropriate treatment … consult more often and physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment …
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In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients in a … physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment compared to the baseline and …
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Unfavorable news are often delivered under the disguise of vagueness. Our theory-driven laboratory experiment investigates this strategic use of vagueness in voluntary disclosure and asks whether there is scope for policy to improve information transmission. We find that vagueness is profitably...
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from a physician’s retirement. We then show that online physician reviews reduce this gap and help patients find a new … physician reviews, but are not found for patients of nonretiring physicians. By reducing interruptions in care, reviews can …
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The decision to contact a physician and the decision, how often to contact a physician, are based on different decision makers. We introduce a negative binominal distributed hurdle model that specifies the two stages of the decision process as different stochastic processes, and takes also care...
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presents a critical health policy challenge. We investigate the role of practice styles in patients' antibiotic intake using … high prescribing is linked to better treatment quality or fewer adverse health outcomes. Policies improving physician …
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