This paper provides a general theoretical framework that captures the essential features of a Swedish reform where private and public health care providers serve patients with certain functional impairments. Because providers receive a fixed hourly compensation for their services (identical...

The first-price auction model has been intensively studied in the econometric literature. Probably one of the best well-known papers in this field is the one by Guerre et al. (2000) where the authors show the nonparametric identification of the distribution of the private values within the...