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Grenzen des Wettbewerbs im Gesundheitswesen

Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2008

Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they neglect the competition between health care providers for...

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Monopolistic Competition and Costs in the Health Care Sector

Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009

strong position on the market for health care services. Physicians exert a type of monopolistic power which can be described … counterbalance the strong bargaining position of the physicians. Thus, health care expenditure is higher, financing either extra … profits for physicians or a higher number of them. In addition, health insurers do not have an incentive to contract …

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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives: theory and evidence on compensation systems

Encinosa, William E.; Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005

data. Factors emphasized in the economic theory of agency, notably risk aversion, also shape pay policies but these factors …

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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care

Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022

Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...

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On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - 2008

possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and … occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium assortative matching takes place; more able physicians join occupations …

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Beidseitige Informationsasymmetrien in der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung: Implikationen für die GKV

Schneider, Udo - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71 (2002) 4, pp. 447-458

Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Interdependenzen und Informationsstrukturen im Gesundheitswesen. Hauptansatzpunkt …

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Gatekeeping in health care

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005

We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...

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The Mediating Role of Psychosocial Benefits in the Satisfaction Formation Process

Prevo, Olaf; Leunisse, Patrick; Roest, Henk - 1999

In this paper we investigate the mediating role of psychosocial benefits in the customersatisfaction/dissatisfaction formation process. Most research on this subject deals with thecausality direction of psychosocial benefits and satisfaction, sometimes preceded by anoverall functional benefit...

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Spatial competition between health care providers: effects of standardization

Kuchinke, Björn A.; Zerth, Jürgen; Wiese, Nadine - 2009

In the international health care literature there is a broad discussion on impacts of competition in health care markets. But aspects of standardization in regional health care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention. We use a typical Hotelling-framework...

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Gerechtigkeit in Gesundheitssystemen aus ökonomischer Perspektive

Schreyögg, Jonas - 2003

Angesichts steigender Gesundheitsausgaben spielen Gesundheitssystemvergleiche in den letzten Jahren eine immer größere Rolle. Solche "Benchmarks" können sinnvolle Anregungen zur Verbesserung von Gesundheitssystemen darstellen. Viele Gesundheitssystemvergleiche unterstellen implizit ein...

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