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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives: theory and evidence on compensation systems
Encinosa, William E.; Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
data. Factors emphasized in the economic theory of agency, notably risk aversion, also shape pay policies but these factors …
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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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How Do Insurers Price Medical Malpractice Insurance?
Black, Bernard; Traczynski, Jeffrey; Udalova, Victoria - 2022
Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351931
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Occupational mismatch and moonlighting among Spanish physicians: do couples matter?
Dolado, Juan José; Felgueroso, Florentino - 2008
physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the … university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same …
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Learning from Other Economies - for example from Somewhere Down Under
Freeman, Richard B. - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 3, pp. 33-37
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Die Erstellung medizinischer Leistungen: entscheidungstheoretische Grundlagen und gesundheitspolitischer Handlungsbedarf
Stolpe, Michael - 2004
Dieser Aufsatz stellt die entscheidungstheoretischen Grundlagen der Produktion von Gesundheitsleistungen dar und leitet daraus Schlussfolgerungen für die Gesundheitspolitik ab. Die bedeutendste Herausforderung am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts liegt darin, die Diffusion neuen medizinischen Wissens...
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Optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging
Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - 2008
This paper develops a simple analytical framework in which optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging can be discussed. To be efficient, these policies must recognize and exploit the dynamic complementarities between the timing of retirement, the size of lifecycle labour income...
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Income redistribution and access to innovations in health care
García-Alonso, María del Carmen; O'Donnell, Owen - 2001
We study the impact a redistribution of income has on the decisions of a health care innovator and the utility of consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its price and increases the utility of some of the consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290644
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Contact decision and frequency decision: an econometric model of the demand for ambulatory services
Pohlmeier, Winfried; Ulrich, Volker - 1992
The decision to contact a physician and the decision, how often to contact a physician, are based on different decision makers. We introduce a negative binominal distributed hurdle model that specifies the two stages of the decision process as different stochastic processes, and takes also care...
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Ökonomische Analyse der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung: Theoretische Modellierung und empirische Ergebnisse
Schneider, Udo - 2001
The paper reviews models of the physician-patient relationship to derive testable hypotheses about the relation between health, demand for medical services and patient's compliance. The models imply that in addition to existing information asymmetries the actions that physician and patient...
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