The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Recent work emphasizes a two-sided asymmetric information relationship between physician and patient. In contrast to most work looking only at the physician's perspective, our paper...

The German population is aging. Since fewer children are born and simultaneously life expectancy rises, demographic changes will lead to a double aging process. The paper analyzes the effects of demographic changes on the public budget by applying a cointegration analysis to global budget...

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...

The paper develops and applies a Grossman-style health production model set up in discrete time to explain the impact of environmental pollution on the demand for both health and health care. In order to introduce the environment, our analysis takes changes in environmental conditions to...

Gesundheitsökonomen nehmen Stellung zu den „Eckpunkten zu einer Gesundheitsreform“ der Koalitionsparteien vom 4. Juli 2006.

Seit dem Krankenversicherungs-Kostendämpfungsgesetz von 1977 wurden 46 größere Gesetze mit über 6.800 Einzelregelungen erlassen mit dem Ziel, die Ausgabensteigerungen im Gesundheitswesen zu begrenzen und den Beitragssatz zu stabilisieren. Die gesetzlichen Eingriffe konnten den Ausgabentrend...

The German population is aging. Since fewer children are born and simultaneously life expectancy rises, demographic changes will lead to a double aging process. The paper analyzes the effects of demographic changes on national debt and the public budget by applying a cointegration analysis to...

Seit dem rapiden Wachstum der Ausgaben für Gesundheit zu Beginn der 70er Jahre steht die Analyse der nominalen Ausgaben im Mittelpunkt des wissenschaftlichen und politischen Interesses. Durch die Ermittlung aussagefähiger Preiszeitreihen für spezifische Behandlungsleistungen der Gesetzlichen...