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Geographic variation in healthcare utilization : the role of physicians
Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318685
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The 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in contract theory
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2017
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström were awarded the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their fundamental contributions to contract theory. This article offers a short summary and discussion of their path breaking work.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626725
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Does a short-term increase in incentives boost performance?
Angelova, Vera; Giebe, Thomas; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta - 2017
If agents are exposed to continual competitive pressure, how does a short-term variation of the severity of the competition affect agents' performance? In a real-effort laboratory experiment, we study a one-time increase in incentives in a sequence of equally incentivized contests. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895040
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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)
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490343
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413597
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Is the medical brain drain beneficial? : Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK
Kangasniemi, Mari (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001946618
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Spin doctors : an experiment on vague disclosure
Deversi, Marvin; Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191455
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Healthy reviews! : online physician ratings reduce healthcare interruptions
Kummer, Michael E.; Laitenberger, Ulrich; Rich, Cyrus E.; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012642659
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Contact decision and frequency decision : an econometric model of the demand for ambulatory services
Pohlmeier, Winfried; Ulrich, Volker - 1992
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619412
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Contact decision and frequency decision : an econometric model of the demand for ambulatory services
Pohlmeier, Winfried; Ulrich, Volker - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427882