In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who … are still in education to control for selection and account for differences in health-conscious behavior between publicly …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who … are still in education to control for selection and account for differences in health-conscious behavior between publicly …

attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … as a Malmquist index decomposition in pure technical efficiency change, are analyzed for periods before and after the … reform. We implement a two-stage semi-parametric efficiency model that allows for spatial interdependence among hospitals …

Moral hazard and adverse selection create inefficiencies in private health insurance markets. The authors use claims … attempted to estimate moral hazard in private health insurance by assuming that individuals respond only to the spot price, end …, economic intuition suggests that the nonlinear budget constraints generated by health insurance plans make these assumptions …

salience of premium differences. Using variation in both features in the German Social Health Insurance (SHI) and information … health insurance market. …We investigate two determinants of the price sensitivity of health plan demand: the size of the choice set and the …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service … quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary benefit provision on top of federally mandated benefits, and (iii) health plan …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service … quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary benefit provision on top of federally mandated benefits, and (iii) health plan …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service … quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary benefit provision on top of federally mandated benefits, and (iii) health plan …

To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a …, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of existing health plans, across employers and state-borders. This paper … impact on market price dispersion. Moreover, it (b) characterizes health plan switchers and investigates their annual and …