In 2004, the German Social Health Insurance introduced a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. I combine a structural model of health care demand and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the effect of that reform on the number of visits. In the model, the...

Die Arbeit umfaßt die Darstellung und Anwendung von Regressionsmodellen für Zähldaten, deren abhängige Variable nur nichtnegative ganzzahlige Werte annehmen kann. Die Spezifikationen des Poisson- und des NegBin 2-Modells mit den zugehörigen Schätzverfahren und Beurteilungskriterien werden...

The paper compares two approaches to the estimation of panel probit models: the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and the Simulated Maximum Likelihood (SML) technique. Both have in common that they circumvent multiple integrations of joint density functions without the need to impose...

In the semiparametric additive hazard regression model of McKeague and Sasieni (1994), the hazard contributions of some covariates are allowed to change over time, without parametric restrictions (Aalen model), while the contributions of other covariates are assumed to be constant. In this...