In recent health care reforms, several countries have replaced pure payment schemes for physicians (fee … after these reforms. In this study we compare the effects resulting from pure and mixed incentives for physicians under … controlled laboratory conditions. Subjects in the role of physicians choose the quantity of medical services for different …

: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their …

physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase … hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more …

approval. By contrast, patent prolongation does not affect physicians' prescription decisions and increases the likelihood of …

assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as …

We explore how competition between physicians affects medical service provision. Previous research has shown that …, without competition, physicians deviate from patient-optimal treatment under payment systems like capitation and fee …-for-service. While competition might reduce these distortions, physicians usually interact with each other repeatedly over time and only …

: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their …

Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through fee-for-service and capitation …. While theory shows mixed payment systems to be superior, empirically, causal effects on physicians’ behavior are not well … payment systems on physicians’ service provision. In a controlled laboratory setting, we implement an exogenous variation of …