allowed to over-bill. We exploit 2005 and 2008 Public Health insurance administrative data on GPs activity and fees. We use …

Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals outside the Local Health …

Moral hazard and adverse selection create inefficiencies in private health insurance markets. The authors use claims … attempted to estimate moral hazard in private health insurance by assuming that individuals respond only to the spot price, end …, economic intuition suggests that the nonlinear budget constraints generated by health insurance plans make these assumptions …

Many health care systems aim to enhance hospital quality by encouraging competition. However, evidence on the …

An individual experiences double coverage when he benefits from more than one health insurance plan at the same time …. This paper examines the impact of such supplementary insurance on the demand for health care services. Its novelty is that … hazard is present across the whole outcome distribution for both public and private second layers of health insurance …

An individual experiences double coverage when he benefits from more than one health insurance plan at the same time …. This paper examines the impact of such supplementary insurance on the utilisation of health care. Its novelty is that … supplementary insurance since although both public and private second layers of health care protection increase the utilisation of …

This paper examines the cost efficiency in the nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers …

This paper examines the cost efficiency in the nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers … assessment of the economic performance of the firms by estimating their cost efficiency scores, and (3) the role of unobserved … reduction in a majority of Swiss nursing homes. Taking the size as given the efficiency performance of most individual units is …