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Expenditures on healthcare versus health conditions among new member countries of the EU

Leśniowska, Małgorzata; Nedyalkova, Anna - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 10 (2014) 1, pp. 35-48

The aging population, the increasing number of lifestyle diseases and the increasing proportion of difficult-to-cure illnesses in the EU demands the use of modern medicine and modern medical technology. Such a situation leads to an increase of funds spent on the health sector. Therefore the...

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Using Fees to Reduce Bed-Blocking: A Game between Hospitals and Care Providers

Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016

The Coordination Reform was introduced in Norway in 2012 including a fee for bed-blocking in hospitals. To study this, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform does not necessarily lead to less bed-blocking as this...

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The casual nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption expenditure, and food production index

Asumadu-Sarkodie, Samuel; Owusu, Phebe Asantewaa - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-15

In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption expenditure, and food production index in Ghana was investigated spanning from 1971 to 2013 using the Autoregressive and Distributed Lag (ARDL) method. The study tested for unit root,...

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Greece in Economic Crisis: The Case of Health and Education

Dassiou, Xeni - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 3, pp. 145-164

In 2010 the Greek economy entered a deep economic crisis. This was the result of an accumulation of structural problems in the economy, including overspending and loss of competitiveness during the previous decades, translating into persistently large budget and trade deficits. In 2015, under...

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Waiting time distribution in public health care: Empirics and theory

Dimakou, Sofia; Dimakou, Ourania; Basso, Henrique S. - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 25, pp. 1-27

Excessive waiting times for elective surgery have been a long-standing concern in many national healthcare systems in the OECD. How do the hospital admission patterns that generate waiting lists affect different patients? What are the hospitals characteristics that determine waiting times? By...

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Regional differences in health care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Germany

Lange, Ansgar; Prenzler, Anne; Bachmann, Frank Oliver; … - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 29, pp. 1-11

Background: The regional availability of specialized physicians is an important aspect in healthcare of patients with IBD. The association between physician density and healthcare is not yet clear. Most studies did not consider district type, which reflects population density. Our research...

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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? Empirical Evidence with German Data

Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008

determine the price elasticity of demand for health care. A latent class approach that takes into account the panel structure of …

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011

Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...

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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice

Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance … plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … health insurance companies to express price differences between health plans in absolute Euro values rather than percentage …

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Zusatzbeiträge erhöhen die Preistransparenz: mehr Versicherte wechseln die Krankenkasse

Eibich, Peter; Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 51/52, pp. 3-12

Die 2009 implementierte Gesundheitsreform hat die Preistransparenz und somit die Verbraucherfreundlichkeit innerhalb der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) zunächst deutlich erhöht und die Bereitschaft der Versicherten gefördert, auf Preiserhöhungen mit einem Wechsel der Krankenkasse zu...

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