The paper presents a principal-agent model to analyse the relationship between physicians and patients. The application … health care: physicians, patients and sickness funds. The central point is that the key players (physicians, patients and … physician-patient relationship has to consider further participants as well as their interactions. …

The relationship between physician and patient has been discussed intensively in the literature. Nevertheless, they … influenced by the patient's compliance. We present a model of medical treatment in which both the actions of physician and … patient are modelled as a productive input. The consequences of a mutual asymmetric information about these inputs result in …

gatekeeping, the first half of the chapter examines literature on agency, patient choice and preferences for GP services, and the …

Health economists typically use agency theory to predict how physicians respond to various policy schemes. Empirical … physicians’ behaviour. Drawing on key lessons from social psychology and public administration literatures, we propose to expand … the principal-agent framework by unfolding physicians’ non-pecuniary motives to provide care using three components …