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Hospital market concentration and discrimination of patients

Dewenter, Ralf; Jaschinski, Thomas; Kuchinke, Björn A. - 2012

In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … pursue any differentiation among prospective patients with different health insurances. We ascribe this finding to …

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How Are Government Hospitals Performing? A Study of Resource Management in DOH-retained Hospitals

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Sanglay-Dunleavy, Abigail Barbara; … - 2010

The paper attempts to provide an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines with particular emphasis on … hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the … size, location, and utilization of hospital services. To assess the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery in DOH …

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Profile of Private Hospitals in the Philippines

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Pantig, Ida Marie T.; Ulep, … - 2011

As a recognition of the valuable role of private sector in the healthcare delivery system, this paper attempts to collate vital information on private hospitals in the Philippines. This paper looks at the different characteristics and structures of private hospitals sector with regard to...

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Partial price discrimination by an upstream monopolist

Bru, Lluís; Faulí-Oller, Ramon; Sandonís, Joel - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 2, pp. 217-231

We analyze third degree price discrimination by an upstream monopolist to a continuum of heterogeneous downstream firms. The novelty of our approach is to recognize that customizing prices may be costly. As a consequence, partial price discrimination arises in equilibrium; in particular,we...

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Wholesale Price Discrimination and Parallel Imports

Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - 2007

We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). In this context we show that if competition policy requires uniform wholesale prices across locations it would push retail...

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Paying to Remove Advertisements

Tåg, Joacim - 2009

Media firms sometimes allow consumers to pay to remove advertisements from an advertisement-based product. We formally examine an ad-based monopolist's incentives to introduce this option. When deciding whether to introduce the option to pay, the monopolist compares the potential direct revenues...

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On Price-Setting for Identical Products in Markets without Formal Trade Barriers

Hassink, Wolter H.J.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2001

This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers. We use data from IKEA, a furniture company selling identical products in an identical shopping environment in different EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law...

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Dealer Pricing of Consumer Credit

Bertola, Giuseppe; Hochguertel, Stefan; Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

Interest rates on consumer lending are lower when funds are tied to purchase of a durable good than when they are made available on an unconditional basis. Further, dealers often choose to bear the financial cost of their customers? credit purchases. This paper interprets this phenomenon in...

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Price discrimination bans on dominant firms

Bouckaert, Jan; Degryse, Hans; Dijk, Theon van - 2008

Competition authorities and regulatory agencies sometimes impose pricing restrictions on firms with substantial market power the dominant firms. We analyze the welfare effects of a ban on behaviour-based price discrimination in a two-period setting where the market displays a competitive and a...

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Fiscal Discrimination Between Consumer Groups: Tax Burden Distribution Under Price Discrimination

Plewka, Jörg - 2007

In this paper it is analysed, how, under price discrimination, the tax burden is shared between the distinct consumer groups. Unit and ad valorem taxes are compared, revealing an impossibility of fiscal discrimination with regard to price changes. Contrary to conventional tax incidence analysis,...

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