or responsiveness to financial incentives. In the frontier literature productive efficiency is assumed to be exogenously … production, as theory has hypothesized. The number of members in a group decreases both the quantity produced and the efficiency … arrangements on productive efficiency in medical group practices. The technique employed is two-stage production frontier …

We consider physicians with fixed capacity levels. If a physician's capacity exceeds demand, she may have an incentive … first show that simple fee-for-service reimbursement schemes do not provide proper incentives. If insurers use, however, fee … ; incentives ; medical doctors ; demand inducement ; insurance …

of its employees who had been working as physicians for a professional cycling team has drawn attention to another group … of actors: physicians. It reveals a multi-layered contractual relations between sports teams, physicians, hospitals, and … sports associations that provided string incentives for the two doctors to support the use performance-enhancing drugs. This …