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Entry and Exit of Physicians in a two-tiered public/private Health Care System
Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2011
Firm turnover has recently attracted increased interest in economic research. The entry of new firms increases … entry usually leads to increased innovation. The health care market exhibits important differences as compared to other … effects of entries and exits in health care markets are less obvious. The following paper studies the determinants of entry …
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Physician Density in a Two-Tiered Health Care System
Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Winner, Hannes; … - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2011
We investigate the density of private physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public and private health care providers. In particular, we analyze how the densities of private and public suppliers of outpatient health care (general practitioners and specialists)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008913276
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Physician density in a two-tiered health care system
Gächter, Martin; Schwazer, Peter; Theurl, Engelbert; … - In: Health Policy 106 (2012) 3, pp. 257-268
We investigate the density of non-contract (private) physicians in a two-tiered health care system, i.e., one with co-existing public and private health care providers. In particular, we analyze how the densities of private and public suppliers of outpatient health care (general practitioners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048298
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Will Plain Packaging Reduce Cigarette Consumption?
Clarke, Harry; Prentice, David - Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business … - 2012
evidence. Without offsetting tax increases the legislation will plausibly reduce prices but significant entry into the industry …
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Die Ausgestaltung von Versorgungsvertraegen: Eine vertragstheoretische Analyse
Muehlbacher, Axel - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 227 (2007) 5+6, pp. 765-786
Transaction costs are an obstacle to the efficient operation of selective contracting. Health care delivery systems (§140 a-d SGB V) and selective contracting between networks of service providers and purchasers are advocated as an effective method to improve the performance of the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596439
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Cost Containment and Managed Care: Evidence from German Macro Data
Ehlert, Andree; Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Prawda, Stefan - 2013
The major German health care reforms undertaken since the late 1990s resulted in the adoption of selective contracting mechanisms in a formerly sectorally separated health care system. These reforms marked the launch of managed care in Germany that is expected to yield both a higher quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161052
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How to Improve Israel's Health-care System
Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Israelis enjoy higher life expectancy and have a much younger demographic profile than most OECD countries. However, the demand for health care is expanding rapidly due to population growth and ageing. Also, the country’s wide socio-economic divides are reflected in differences in health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276783
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Health Care Expenditure over Life Cycle in the People's Republic of China
Feng, Jin; Lou, Pingyi; Yu, Yangyang - In: Asian Development Review 32 (2015) 1, pp. 167-195
We use individual level data from eight waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey during 1991–2011 to investigate age profiles of health expenditure for rural and urban residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Employing a two-part model, we find that health expenditure of rural...
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Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012
This chapter reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done since the publication of the first volume of this Handbook. In addition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261668
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Re-visiting the Health Care Luxury Good Hypothesis: Aggregation, Precision, and Publication Biases?
Costa-Font, J; M, Gemmill; G, Rubert - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
While a growing literature examining the relationship between income and health expenditures suggests that health care is a luxury good, this conclusion is contentiously debated due to heterogeneity of the existing results. This paper tests the luxury good hypothesis (namely that income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328370