Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Hehenkamp, Burkhard; Kokot, Johanna - 2022
We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians … are faced with a heterogeneous patient population, in which patients systematically vary with regard to both, their … benefits as long as patients are able to respond to the quality provided. For those patients, who are not able to choose a …