Godager, Geir; Iversen, Tor; Ma, Ching-to Albert - In: Journal of Health Economics 39 (2015) C, pp. 159-170
competition in the physician market intensifies. First, due to competitive pressure, physicians refer patients to specialty care …. We assess empirically the overall effect of competition with data from a 2008–2009 Norwegian survey, National Health … Insurance Administration, and Statistics Norway. From the data we construct three measures of competition: the number of open …