This paper investigates how changes in hospital choice sets affect levels of patient demand for elective hospital care …. Impacts on demand are estimated using variation in distance to these private hospitals, within regions where supply … constraints are fixed. We find that the reforms increased demand for publicly-funded procedures. For public hospitals, volumes …

demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the …

induce demand primarily among the privately insured. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effects of insurance status … statutorily insured. These findings give indirect evidence for the hypothesis that physicians induce demand among privately …