are characterized by asymmetric information. Physicians have an information advantage over patients with respect to the …, physicians have to pay a fine. Endogenous monitoring can be requested by patients, whereas exogenous monitoring is performed … experiment. Our results show that introducing endogenous monitoring reduces the level of undertreatment and overcharging. Even …

and exit decisions of physicians in the private sector of the outpatient part of the Austrian health care system. We apply … - 2008. We are particularly interested in the question how public physicians (GPs/specialists) and their private counterparts … influence the entrance and exit of private physicians. We find a significantly negative effect of existing capacities, measured …

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect … prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine learning methods. We find that payments cause physicians to prescribe … more brand drugs, resulting in a cost increase of $30 per dollar received. Responses differ widely across physicians, and …

from the signatories of an open letter in which 199 Austrian physicians expressed their skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines …

a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running a framed field experiment with 828 six …

who try to win via illicit means which crowds out the best performers. We use a laboratory experiment to explore the role …