We exploit a unique field experiment to recover the willingness to pay (WTP) for shorter waiting times at a cataract detection clinic in Mexico City, and compare the results with those obtained through a hypothetical dichotomous choice questionnaire. The WTP to avoid a minute of wait obtained...

We perform a cost–benefit analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indifferent between donating and not donating a kidney while alive using Chilean data. We find that monetary incentives of...

Mit dem Krankenhausstrukturgesetz (KHSG), das zum 1.1.2016 in Kraft treten soll, möchte der Gesetzgeber den Strukturwandel über eine qualitativ hochwertige Krankenhausplanung erreichen. In der gewählten Ausgestaltung ist dies eher unwahrscheinlich, da die Bedeutung der Struktur-, Prozess- und...

Our society is on the brink of health care system reorganization and implementation of new medical technology. Hospitals have to be a core component of the medical revolution so they have to be prepared for the upcoming leap in their development. If Poland wants to be a pioneer in providing new...

Although personalized medicine is becoming the new paradigm to manage some diseases, the economics of personalized medicine have only focused on assessing the efficiency of specific treatments, lacking a theoretical framework analyzing the interactions between pharmaceutical firms and healthcare...

Since 2000 several papers have examined the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems worldwide. These papers have extended the literature using drastically different input and output combinations from one another, with little theoretical or empirical support backing these specifications. Issues...

Despite increasing popularity, quality improvement programs (QIP) have had modest and variable impacts on enhancing the quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians’ preferences as a potential explanation of these mixed results in France, where the national...

We analyze a rationale for official authorization of patient dumping in the prospective payment policy framework. We show that when the insurer designs the healthcare payment policy to let hospitals dump high-cost patients, there is a trade-off between the disutility of dumped patients (changes...

Angesichts der Alterung der Bevölkerung rückt die adäquate Versorgung Hilfe- und Pflegebedürftiger immer stärker ins Blickfeld der öffentlichen Diskussion. Obwohl gegenwärtig in nahezu allen europäischen Staaten staatliche Pflegeleistungen gewährt werden, unterscheiden sie sich...

Die Pflegenoten messen fast ausschließlich Struktur- und Prozessqualität. Aus diesem Grund liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass Größe (Synergieeffekte und Stichprobenvorteile), Trägerschaft (freigemeinnützige Träger mit besserer Personalausstattung und höherem Entgelt) sowie die regionale Lage...