We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of...

An alternative to estimation ofmicroeconometricmodels under the assumption of normality of the distribution of the disturbances is semi-nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation. In a particular class of this kind of models, the density function of the disturbances is approximated by a Hermite...