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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital …
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Using data from the Business Surveys Unit of the European Commission as a long-running-continental-scale experiment, this paper examines how, and how accurately, people assess economic systems. Data show both commonsense (e.g. people know the past better than the future) and puzzling results...
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We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …
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We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect …
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In theory, health care providers may adapt their professional behavior to the financial incentives driven by their remuneration. Our research question is whether the users of health care services anticipate such a behavior from their general practitioner (GP) and, if they do, what are the...
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We study the effects of a hospital merger using a spatial competition framework with semialtruistic hospitals that … increase average quality in the market. If a merger leads to hospital closure, the resulting effect on quality is positive …
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If producers have more information than consumers about goods' attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices don't change. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity per...
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