Empirische Erfahrungen,Versichertenverhalten zu steuern

Increasing costs of most healthcare systems result in (major) financing problemsand thus are the focus of many empirical inquiries. Researchers have found thatmismanagement is often a consequence of misplaced incentives. This paper tries tooutline some cases in which the demand side of healthcare changes its behaviourunder different circumstances or incentives. An introduction is given as a shortoverview of the healthcare sector with its economical specialties. This is followed byan outline of some well established contract models and their effect on thedemander’s incentives.[...]