strong position on the market for health care services. Physicians exert a type of monopolistic power which can be described … counterbalance the strong bargaining position of the physicians. Thus, health care expenditure is higher, financing either extra … profits for physicians or a higher number of them. In addition, health insurers do not have an incentive to contract …

neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …

ignores the illness. The high level of out-of-pocket expenses paid by both insured and uninsured patients lies at the root of …

Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Interdependenzen und Informationsstrukturen im Gesundheitswesen. Hauptansatzpunkt … Patienten. Die Interdependenzen zwischen diesen Handlungen bestimmen das resultierende Gleichgewicht. Die Einführung einer … Selbstbeteiligung für den Patienten führt zu einer verbesserten Compliance, das Niveau der medizinischen Leistung hängt von den …

We consider physicians with fixed capacity levels. If a physician's capacity exceeds demand, she may have an incentive …