This paper investigates how changes in hospital choice sets affect levels of patient demand for elective hospital care …. Impacts on demand are estimated using variation in distance to these private hospitals, within regions where supply … constraints are fixed. We find that the reforms increased demand for publicly-funded procedures. For public hospitals, volumes …

entrants could also affect whether a consumer demands the service at all. We explore this issue by considering how demand for …. For elective hip replacements, we find that demand shifts account for at least 7% of public procedures conducted by … procedures, and represent new surgeries, at least within a given year. The increase in volumes resulting from a demand shift …

rationing public healthcare in Italy. We measure demand elasticities by estimating a simultaneous equation model of GP primary … system of demand. We find that own price elasticity of the demand for public specialist consultation is about -0.3, while … administrative waiting time plays a less important role. No substitution exists between the demand for public and private specialists …

rationing public healthcare in Italy. We measure demand elasticities by estimating a simultaneous equation model of GP primary … system of demand. We find that for public specialist consultations, own price elasticity of demand is about -0.3, while … elasticity to administrative waiting time is about -.04. No substitution exists between the demand for public and private …