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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229860
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Can competition reduce quality?
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2014
In a spatial competition setting there is usually a non-negative relationship between competition and quality. In this paper we offer a novel mechanism whereby competition leads to lower quality. This mechanism relies on two key assumptions, namely that the providers are motivated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246067
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Heterogeneous effects of a nonlinear price schedule for outpatient care
Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - 2013
Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212657
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Concerns for equity and the optimal co-payments for publicly provided health care
Hoel, Michael (contributor) - 2005
In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy decisions, it is often argued that an increase in co-payments is unacceptable as it will be particularly harmful to the less well-off in society. The present paper derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297601
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Health values, preference inconsistency, and insurance demand
Wrede, Matthias (contributor) - 2005
Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health state as a point of reference and builds a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300915
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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Siciliani, Luigi (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612755
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"Institutionalization aversion" and the willingness to pay for home health care
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
We examine the presence of a systematic preference for independent living at old age which we refer as "institutionalization aversion" (IA). Given that IA is not observable from revealed preferences, we draw on a survey experiment to elicit individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742523
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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime
Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2017 - This Version: February 2017
We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth … held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending in the decentralized market equilibrium and its effects on economic … growth. We identify the moral-hazard effect in healthcare investments when annuity rates are conditioned on average mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611936
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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013
inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what extent this may be driven by differential access to and utilization of high … quality treatment options. Quasi-experimental evidence based on the establishment of regional cancer wards indicates that i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712444
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Health and wellbeing spillovers of a partner's cancer diagnosis
Angelini, Viola; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023
. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292854