This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in … whether patients react to decentralized information on quality differences between providers and whether payer's and patients …

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in … whether patients react to decentralized information on quality differences between providers and whether payer’s and patients …

almost all Canadian physicians who practiced in Canada between 1989 and 1998. Unlike previous studies, we use a truly … exogenous measure of potential income across general and specialty medicine to estimate the effect of income on physicians … is to be achieved. Our results show that physicians respond to differences in income when making their specialty …

almost all Canadian physicians who practised in Canada between 1989 and 1998. Unlike previous studies, we use a truly … exogenous measure of potential income across general and specialty medicine to estimate the effect of income on physicians … is to be achieved. Our results show that physicians respond to differences in income when making their specialty …

to study the distribution of preferences in a sample of patients who responded to a discrete choice experiment where they …

newly collected data on Medicaid payments to physicians. First, I confirm past results - when Medicaid pays doctors … have adverse health consequences, especially for low-income patients. …