The organisational form and potential harm caused by cartels are fundamentally dependent on the parameters of the coordination. In contrast to classical price cartels, where prices are coordinated and monitored, market allocation cartels permit cartelists to set prices independently....

A central concern in health economics is to understand the influence of commonly used physician payment systems. We introduce a controlled laboratory experiment to analyze the influence of fee-for-service (FFS) and capitation (CAP) payments on physicians' behaviour. Medical students decide as...

Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central concern in health economics research. We introduce a controlled laboratory experiment to analyse the influence of incentives from fee-for-service and capitation payments on physicians’ supply of medical...