P4P, Reputation and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision

We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation unambiguously reduces the costs of healthcare provision and the magnitude of overprovision which in turn rises patient benefits.

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Year of publication:	2012-04
Authors:	Kairies, Nadja
Institutions:	Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
Subject:	Altruism \| performance \| motivation

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Ruhr Economic Papers. - ISSN 1864-4872.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 0331 17 pages
Classification:	D64 - Altruism ; I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets ; I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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