Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform … and patients' health, and the optimal discharge date before the reform. Testing the results with data, we find a large …

) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that …We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii … to higher waiting times. These results are robust to different game-theoretic solution concepts, designs of the hospital …

reduced charge prices by 3.9% (which corresponds to savings of $1,164 per hospital stay) but also diminished negotiated prices … by 15.9% and hospital costs by 4.7%. Our estimation results show that the effects on charge prices do not last as long as … negotiated prices, while low-price hospitals increase charges; (2) hospital characteristics such as ownership, case mix, and …

, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the … driven by unobserved differences across doctors. Finally, we show that patients are unable to identify who the high …