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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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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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On the rise of health spending and longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...

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Beurteilung des Screening-Verfahrens der Krankenversicherer in der Schweiz zur Identifikation von Überarztung

Lux, Gerald; Dahl, Helmut; Wasem, Jürgen - 2010

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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function: A note

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...

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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function: A note

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009

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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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Trade in health services: an analytical framework

Waeger, Patricia - 2007

The present paper deals with a topic that pertains to Health Economics as well as to Trade Theory - Trade in Health Services. It is intended to deliver an analytical framework for the assessments of this new sector of international trade which takes into account both the 'general welfare...

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Deutsches Gesundheitssystem teuer und ineffizient: Eine Fehldiagnose?

Müller, Gero; Klement, Carmen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 3, pp. 202-207

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Development of scenarios for health expenditure in the new EU member states: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia

Golinowska, Stanisława; Kocot, Ewa; Sowa, Agnieszka - 2008

The report is a result of the Ageing, Health Status and Determinants of Health Expenditure (AHEAD) project within the EC 6th Framework programme. The objective of the research was to present the model of future health care system revenues and expenditures in selected Central and Eastern European...

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