entrants could also affect whether a consumer demands the service at all. We explore this issue by considering how demand for …. For elective hip replacements, we find that demand shifts account for at least 7% of public procedures conducted by … private hospitals. These results are robust to instrumenting for location using the presence of existing healthcare facilities …

rationing public healthcare in Italy. We measure demand elasticities by estimating a simultaneous equation model of GP primary … system of demand. We find that own price elasticity of the demand for public specialist consultation is about -0.3, while … administrative waiting time plays a less important role. No substitution exists between the demand for public and private specialists …

rationing public healthcare in Italy. We measure demand elasticities by estimating a simultaneous equation model of GP primary … system of demand. We find that for public specialist consultations, own price elasticity of demand is about -0.3, while … elasticity to administrative waiting time is about -.04. No substitution exists between the demand for public and private …

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 …

increased competition between healthcare providers on prescription of antibiotics. We make use of a competition- inducing reform … different subcategories of antibiotics. The results indicate that increased competition had a positive and significant effect on …

This paper examines, theoretically and empirically, how changes in the demand for health insurance and medical services … factors that increase coverage and hence demand for medical services in the non-Medicare population generate contemporaneous … increases in the demand for medical services in the non-Medicare population are not associated with increases in the total …

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

evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare …New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this … altruistic healthcare providers are, the more likely it is that the social planner prefers greater horizontal differentiation to …