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Strategic interaction in the market for physician services : the treadmill effect in a fixed budget system
Benstetter, Franz; Wambach, Achim - 2001
We examine the strategic interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is fixed. We show that this prospective payment system involves { compared to a fee-for-service remuneration system { a severe coordination problem, which potentially leads to the...
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Strategic Interaction in the Market for Physician Services : The Treadmill Effect in a Fixed Budget System
Wambach, Achim; Benstetter, Franz - 2021
We examine the strategic interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is fixed. We show that this prospective payment system involves compared to a fee-for-service remuneration system a severe coordination problem, which potentially leads to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321020
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Do online reviews always incentivise remanufacturers to improve quality in a competitive environment?
Xie, Shushu; Zhao, Yingxue; Zhao, Lin; He, Xingyuan - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 26 (2024) 67, pp. 903-926
Consumers underestimation of the quality of remanufactured products is a barrier for remanufacturers. Online reviews … provide quality signals to consumers unaware of remanufactured products. To explore whether remanufacturers produce higher … quality products to improve their review ratings, considering the quality signalling effect of online reviews, a closed …
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A theory of media self-silence
Andina-Díaz, Ascensión; García Martínez, José A. - 2015
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Pharmaceutical supply chain networks with outsourcing under price and quality competition
Nagurney, Anna; Li, Dong; Nagurney, Ladimer S. - In: International transactions in operational research : … 20 (2013) 6, pp. 859-888
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2016
factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability we add the possibility for clients to … make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. We observe a positive effect on the rate of truthful … identifiabilitiy (leading to several client-advisor interactions over the course of the game) or competition (allowing one advisor to …
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017
factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability we add the possibility for clients to … make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. We observe a positive effect on the rate of truthful … (leading to several client-advisor interactions over the course of the game) or competition (allowing one advisor to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697162
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018
factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor competition and identifiability, we add the possibility for clients to … make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. While the combination of competition and reputation …. Thus, our results suggest that a voluntary component can act as a substitute for either competition or reputation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881706
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Interdependency in Performance
Haraguchi, Kelii H. - 2007
We empirically model performance in the final round of a multiple-round tournament as a spatially autoregressive process, allowing us to sign and quantify the endogenous interactions between competitors. Doing so speaks to significant regularities in the data that suggest that a player's own...
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Product Pricing when Demand Follows a Rule of Thumb
Matzke, Christina; Wirth, Benedikt - 2009
as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we investigate monopoly and competition between firms, described via an …
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