Ten years have passed since the so called Wende in East Germany. The change of the economical and political system influenced the life of the individuals in multiple ways. From a health economics' perspective one could ask for the implications of changes in lifestyle. This paper reviews economic...

This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...

Seit dem Krankenversicherungs-Kostendämpfungsgesetz von 1977 wurden 46 größere Gesetze mit über 6.800 Einzelregelungen erlassen mit dem Ziel, die Ausgabensteigerungen im Gesundheitswesen zu begrenzen und den Beitragssatz zu stabilisieren. Die gesetzlichen Eingriffe konnten den Ausgabentrend...

The paper reviews models of the physician-patient relationship to derive testable hypotheses about the relation between health, demand for medical services and patient's compliance. The models imply that in addition to existing information asymmetries the actions that physician and patient...

The relationship between physician and patient has been discussed intensively in the literature. Nevertheless, they neglect the fact that the production of health not only depends on the medical services supplied by the physician but is also influenced by the patient's compliance. We present a...