It has been a persistent phenomenon in many societies that a large proportion of alcohol consumption takes place in company of other people. While the phenomenon of social or public drinking is well discussed in disciplines such as social psychology and anthropology, economists have paid little...

Sechs Seminar-/Projektarbeiten von Studierenden des Moduls Gesundheitsökonomie (Bsc. VWL und Bsc. BWL) der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf aus dem Sommer 2012. Inhaltsverzeichnis, Band 2: Arzneimittel. Kapitel 3: Dmitrij Schneider: Vertrauens-...

Rationalisierungsmaßnahmen sind bei steigenden Ausgaben in einem vor allem durch Umlagen finanzierten Gesundheitssystem wichtige Mittel zur Erreichung einer effizienten Produktion und Allokation der Ressourcen. In diesem Artikel werden verschiedene deutsche Regulierungsansätze zur Stärkung...

Sechs Seminar-/Projektarbeiten von Studierenden des Moduls Gesundheitsökonomie (Bsc. VWL und Bsc. BWL) der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf aus dem Sommer 2012. Inhaltsverzeichnis, Band 1: Krankenhäuser. Kapitel 1: Steffen Grisse:...

This study examines the implications of the rising person-centered care model on the long-term care market, specifically focusing on the promotion of higher single-room occupancy in nursing homes. We exploit the staggered implementation of a state-level policy that requires nursing homes to meet...

Recent laboratory experiments have demonstrated that prioritizing registered donors on the waiting list impressively increases the willingness to register as an organ donor. In these experiments, registered organ recipients are prioritized regardless of howlong they have been on thewaiting list....

This contribution gives an overview of the main results of our theoretical research on the stability and change of labour market institutions. We use so-called models of unionised oligopolies which are borrowed from the theory of industrial organization in order to analyse the effects of...

It is a persistent phenomenon in many societies that a large proportion of alcohol consumption takes place in company of other people. While the phenomenon of social or public drinking is well discussed in disciplines as social psychology and anthropology, economists have paid little attention...

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of the production process. We conduct a...

type="main" xml:id="ecin12079-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> Alcohol consumption tends to make some people (unwillingly) tell the truth, hence social drinking can serve as a signal in social contact games. We provide empirical evidence which shows that social drinking can serve as a trust facilitating...