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 …

Telemedicine can expand access to health care at relatively low cost. Historically, however, demand for telemedicine … demand for telemedicine experienced after the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions. We … find a 233 percent increase in the number of telemedicine calls and a 342 percent increase in calls resulting in a …

's technological efficiency to help them update their belief about another product's technological efficiency within the same product …

account rather than focusing on the behavior of health professionals …

Purpose: US policy makers have been looking at various ways to curb rising health care costs in USA, including ways to … hole, all other policy changes lead to increased usage of the focal molecule, and the efforts to increase insurance …

consumption emerged in the longer-term. The main results are robust to corrections for various sources of selection bias …