This paper investigates physician altruism toward patients’ health benefit using behavioral data from the fully incentivized laboratory experiment of Hennig-Schmidt et al. (2011). This setup identifies both physicians’ profits and patients’ health benefit resulting from medical treatment...

Background: Health care systems in many countries are characterized by limited availability of provider performance data that can be used to design and implement welfare improving reforms in the health sector. We question whether a simple mystery shopper scheme can be an effective measure to...

Background: Health care systems in many countries are characterized by limited availability of provider performance data that can be used to design and implement welfare improving reforms in the health sector. We question whether a simple mystery shopper scheme can be an effective measure to...

This paper investigates physician altruism toward patients’ health benefit using behavioral data from Hennig-Schmidt et al.'s (2011) laboratory experiment. In the experiment, medical students in the role of physicians decide on the provision of medical services. The experimental setup allows...

We study gatekeeping physicians’ referrals of patients to specialty care. We derive theoretical results when competition in the physician market intensifies. First, due to competitive pressure, physicians refer patients to specialty care more often. Second, physicians earn more by treating...

Bakgrunn. Mesteparten av den elektive aktiviteten i en sykehusavdeling foregår på dagtid gjennom ukens hverdager, selv om den akutte virksomheten foregår hele døgnet. Hvordan pasientbelastning og legeressurser fordeler seg gjennom døgnet i en sammenhengende tidsperiode i en avdeling er...

Denne rapporten følger norske offentlige sykehus fra 1999 til 2012, -13 år med omveltinger i helsesektoren med blant annet overføring av eierskap fra fylke til staten, et stort antall sammenslåinger av sykehus til større helseforetak, innføringen av lovpålagt enhetlig ledelse, og...