This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

's incentives to obtain education. We employ a triple-difference strategy comparing counties with different levels of uninsurance …

How do patient and provider incentives affect mode and cost of long-term care? Our analysis of 1 million nursing home … profitable out-of-pocket payers. Third, providers react more elastically to financial incentives than patients, so moving to …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in … observe the same GP in two different competitive environments; with competition (own practice) and without competition …

We present the first causal evidence on the persistent impact of enduring competition on prosociality. Inspired by the … competition period. 4-year follow-up data indicate that the effect persists and generalizes, suggesting a change in traits and not …

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while …

-sharing selective incentives. …

static case. -- Yardstick competition ; rent-seeking ; public good ; electoral incentives …This paper investigates the relationship between electoral incentives, institutions and corruption. We assume that … distortionary tax. We demonstrate the possibility that yardstick competition itself fails to restrict rent seeking. We complement …

in such journals. Such academic competition is held to provide the right incentives for hard work, but there may be … ; publication ; journals ; incentives ; economic methodology …