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This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …
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This paper applies the five modified standard criteria generally used in economics for assessing system performances to gauge the contribution of Managed Care to the performance of three health care systems, viz. Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. The maximum contribution of Managed...
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In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...
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Applications tend to ignore that measured TFP reflects the variation of output that cannot be explained by changes in inputs. Such a change is not necessarily technological, so measured TFP differences across firms are an amalgam of technological, efficiency and other differences in attributes,...
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evaluation of clinical treatment, that the over capacity in hospital beds will be reduced in the face of increased competition … Leistungen entsteht, Überkapazitäten bei der Bettenanzahl im Krankenhausbereich durch den Wettbewerb unter den Akutkrankenhäusern …, and hospitals generally will have to be managed more economically. The valuation of a general acute hospital by a third …
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Epidemiologische Analysen aus der Zeit der großflächigen Eindämmungsmaßnahmen von März bis April zeigen, dass sich das neuartige Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Deutschland bereits früh deutlich abgeschwächt verbreitet. Auffällig ist die im internationalen Vergleich geringe Zahl der...
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Der Wettbewerb im deutschen Gesundheitswesen ist - vor allem zwischen den Leistungserbringern - trotz diverser Reformen …The German health care market suffers of a lack of competition. This is the resolution of a long period of collective …
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This brief considers the interaction between physician incentive systems and product market competition in the delivery … maintenance organizations (HMOs) assemble physician networks and the role these networks play in the competition for customers …
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Gegenstand des Beitrages sind die Umstrukturierungen der Stromwirtschaft in Kalifornien. Im Gefolge der Entwicklungen … Senkung der vergleichsweise hohen Strompreise in Kalifornien. Nach einer Analyse der bisherigen Struktur der Stromversorgung … Stromwirtschaft in Kalifornien gezogen. …
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