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Empirische Erfahrungen, Versichertenverhalten zu steuern

Osmers, Henning; Vauth, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2004

empirical inquiries. Researchers have found that mismanagement is often a consequence of misplaced incentives. This paper tries … incentives. An introduction is given as a short overview of the healthcare sector with its economical specialties. This is … followed by an outline of some well established contract models and their effect on the demander’s incentives. The paper …

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The Welfare Impact of Reducing Choice in Medicare Part D: A Comparison of Two Regulation Strategies

Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; Lucarelli, Claudio; Prince, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Motivated by widely publicized concerns that there are "too many" plans, we structurally estimate (and validate) an equilibrium model of the Medicare Part D market to study the welfare impacts of two feasible, similar-sized approaches for reducing choice. One reduces the maximum number of firm...

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Patents, Price Controls and Access to New Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market Entry

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2005

We consider how patent rights and price regulation affect whether new drugs are marketed in a country, and how quickly. The analysis covers a large sample of 68 countries at all income levels and includes all drug launches over the period 1982-2002. It uses newly compiled information on legal...

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Limit pricing and entry under incomplete information : an equilibrium analysis

Milgrom, Paul; Roberts, John - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 50 (1982) 2, pp. 443-459

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies

Kleiner, Morris M.; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

period 2000-2009. We show that the implied penalties are modest, particularly in terms of providing sufficient incentives to …

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Tapering payments in hospitals: Experiences in OECD countries

Lagasnerie, Grégoire de; Paris, Valérie; Mueller, Michael - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2015

This study covers “tapering scale” mechanism in hospital payments, i.e. mechanisms linking unit prices to the volume of services produced. This paper begins with an overview of hospital services and hospital payment methods in OECD countries, focusing more specifically on DRG-based payment....

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Myopia and Complex Dynamic Incentives: Evidence from Medicare Part D

Dalton, Christina M.; Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Town, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Standard Medicare Part D drug insurance provides limited coverage in a ``donut hole'' region, making the purchase problem dynamic. We develop a discontinuity-based test for myopia using enrollees who arrived near the coverage gap early in the year. We find that there are fewer and cheaper...

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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The proposal involves the establishment of ?welfare accounts? for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Physical activity of adults: A survey of correlates, determinants, and effects

Cabane, Charlotte; Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014

We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the individual participation decision based and is based on papers from various disciplines. The second part summarizes...

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