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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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Swiss Social Health Insurance: Co-payments Work

Felder, Stefan; Werblow, Andreas - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 3, pp. 43-46

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Exit and Voice in Dutch Social Health Insurance

Greß, Stefan; Delnoij, Diana; Groenewegen, Peter - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 3, pp. 47-53

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Entwicklung der Ausgaben und Einnahmen in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung: Bewertungskonzepte und empirische Befunde

Pimpertz, Jochen - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 50 (2023) 4, pp. 61-77

Beinahe jährlich wiederkehrende Defizite in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung haben zu einem stetig steigenden Beitragssatz geführt. Während in der politischen Debatte vor allem Reformansätze diskutiert werden, die zusätzliche Einnahmen generieren sollen, legt die empirische Diagnose...

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Indikatoren zur GKV-Finanzentwicklung und ihre normativen Implikationen

Pimpertz, Jochen - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 46 (2019) 1, pp. 121-136

etwas stärker gewachsen. Für die Diskussion um den Vorrang einer einnahmen- oder ausgabenorientierten Gesundheitspolitik …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Public Expenditures on Education and Health on Poverty in Indian States

Jha, Raghbendra; Biswal, Bagala; Biswal, Urvashi D. - 2001

The principal objective of this study is to test whether public expenditures on education, health and other development activities have been effective in reducing poverty in India. To ensure sensitivity and robustness of the results, three different measures of poverty belonging to the...

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Firms and Worker Health

Ahammer, Alexander; Packham, Analisa; Smith, Jonathan - 2024

We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers from 1998–2018, we exploit mobility between firms to estimate how much a firm contributes to worker-level differences in utilization in a setting with non-employer provided...

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Do I really need to go to rehab? I'd say no, no, no.: estimating price elasticities of convalescent care programs

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009

This study is the first to estimate the price elasticities of demand for both medical rehabilitation programs and treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician....

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Assessing development strategies to achieve the MDGs in Asia: Macroeconomic strategies of MDG achievement in the Kyrgyz Republic

Mogilevsky, Roman; Omorova, Anarkul - 2011

The paper aims at analyzing macroeconomic and financial strategies, which are to ensure achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the Kyrgyz Republic. The paper is based on results of simulations generated through the application of standard MAMS, a computable general equilibrium...

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Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach

Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2013

This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...

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