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Managed Care Konzepte und Lösungsansätze: Ein internationaler Vergleich aus schweizerischer Sicht
Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
This paper applies the five modified standard criteria generally used in economics for assessing system performances to gauge the contribution of Managed Care to the performance of three health care systems, viz. Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. The maximum contribution of Managed...
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GPs' preferences: What price fee-for-service?
Zweifel, Peter; Rischatsch, Maurus; Brändle, Angelika - 2009
In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...
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Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?
Capps, Cory S.; Carlton, Dennis W.; David, Guy - 2010
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294546
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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment
Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008
academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …
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The road not taken: Competition and the R&D portfolio
Letina, Igor - 2015
duplication of research. An increase in the intensity of competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663162
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Entry, exit, and the determinants of market structure
Dunne, Timothy; Klimek, Shawn D.; Roberts, Mark J.; Xu, … - 2013
competition are all found to be important determinants of long-run firm values, firm turnover, and market structure. Estimates for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397677
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The road not taken: Competition and the R&D portfolio
Letina, Igor - 2014
competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282467
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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
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Reference points in renegotiations: The role of contracts and competition
Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...
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