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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice …) and too few (many) patients are treated in the high-skill (low-skill) region. The effects of patient mobility depend on …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229860
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2021
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice …) and too few (many) patients are treated in the high-skill (low-skill) region. The effects of patient mobility depend on …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315635
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2011
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120229
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Should I wait or should I go? : travelling versus waiting for better healthcare
Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Ugolini, Cristina; Verzulli, Rossella - 2021
We study patient mobility in the Italian National Health System, using patient-episode level data on elective … Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … of the discouraging effect of travel distance. We provide evidence that patients are responsive to changes in waiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012523499
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Trade, integration and interregional inequality : conference paper
Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: February 20, 2013
We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic geography approach where interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs and where we can derive an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491189
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Closure in inter-regional knowledge networks : an application to the European co-publication network
Bergé, Laurent R. - 2014
The question of the determinants of inter-regional knowledge flows has received a growing interest in the recent past. Particularly, the question of the relationship between geography and networks has been debated. Yet, at the inter-regional level, there is no study assessing the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487789
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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 105 (2014), pp. 140-157
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Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021
Using a novel common econometric specification, we examine the measurement of three important effects in international trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration agreements, national borders, and bilateral distance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315671
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Imperfect Mobility
Cai, Zhengyu - 2020
This study investigates why the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is weakly supported in the literature. Using a discrete choice model, it shows that the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is rarely observed because workers are imperfectly mobile from the perspective of researchers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826016
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Commuting farther and earning more? : how employment density moderates workers' commuting distance
Reichelt, Malte; Haas, Anette - 2015
Innerhalb der letzten Jahrzehnte hat ein Großteil der industrialisierten Länder einen Anstieg der Pendeldistanzen verzeichnet. Dies ruft zunehmendes Interesse an den Determinanten der Pendelstrecken hervor. Die primäre theoretische Erklärung für längere Pendeldistanzen basiert auf höheren...
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