Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)
In a laboratory experiment designed to capture key aspects of the interaction between physicians and patients, we study … the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … consult more often and physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment …