Behrens, Johann; Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006
Medical doctors act as agents of their patients by either treating them directly orreferring them to other more or differently specialized doctors, who therebybecome “agents of agents”. The main aim of this paper is to model centralaspects of such two-layered agency relations in the medical...