Nicht nur vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Umfragen ist die Fragestellung des vorliegenden Beitrags dreiteilig. Zunächst geht es um die Frage, was wir über die Akzeptanz der sozialen Marktwirtschaft eigentlich wissen - und wie die empirisch ermittelte Akzeptanz sich zur theoretisch...

Background: Economic theory strongly suggests that better information about the quality of care affects patients' choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on provider's choice. There is, for example, no systematic...

This paper projects the health expenditures in the social health insurance (SHI) in Germany until 2050. The long-term expenditure volume of the SHI is analyzed by OLS, vector autoregression (VAR) and vector error correction models (VECM). The SHI-expenditures are driven in particular by...

Background: Economic theory strongly suggests that better information about the quality of care affects patients’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on provider’s choice in Germany. Problem: In Germany, we...