Der Sammelband enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops zu den besonderen Versorgungsformen im Bereich des Gesundheitswesens, insbesondere der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Herausforderungen, mit denen sich Krankenkassen und...

This chapter reviews the theory and empirical literature on physician market power, behavior, and motives, referred to collectively as the issue of physician agency. The chapter is organized around an increasingly complex view of the demand conditions facing a physician, beginning with the most...

Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show that there are strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and the outpatient sector using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a...