Large regional disparities in health and healthcare costs prevail in many countries, but our understanding of the underlying causes is still limited. This study shows for the case of the Netherlands that population sorting through internal migration can explain a substantial share, around 28%,...

In diesem Papier wird das zukünftige Ausgabenvolumen der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) bis zum Jahr 2050 projiziert. Die Ausgaben werden anhand von linearen Regressionsmodellen (OLS), Vektorautoregressionsmodellen (VAR) und Vektorfehlerkorrekturmodellen (VECM) geschätzt. Sie werden...

Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial interest. Classical models of supplier-induced demand predict that medical providers will supply fewer services if they face increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a...

Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial interest. Classical models of supplier-induced demand predict that medical providers will supply fewer services if they face increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a...

Healthcare utilization varies widely between regions. Yet, the causes of regional variation are still not well understood, and they can also differ between countries and institutional settings. We exploit patient migration to examine which share of regional variation in ambulatory care use in...

This paper projects the health expenditures in the social health insurance (SHI) in Germany until 2050. The long-term expenditure volume of the SHI is analyzed by OLS, vector autoregression (VAR) and vector error correction models (VECM). The SHI-expenditures are driven in particular by...