Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is …

Physicians: Evidence from the Third Reform Wave. It also reconciles our results to Helland and Seabury (2015). The underlying …

assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as …

hospital-based physicians be paid directly from hospital budgets as opposed to the current practice of paying them separately … provincial health ministries. Surgical specialists make up about 20 percent of all full-time equivalent physicians, and fee …-for-service payments to them accounted for close to $4 billion nationwide in 2011/12. Because physicians’ decisions are the major drivers …

to its population. In spite of this, Québec’s family physicians and the general public regularly report that provincial … “very difficult” time accessing after-hours care versus 58 percent of Ontarians. Why? Quebec physicians tend to spend less … for the shortest physician’s work week at 34.9 hours, compared to 43 in Ontario. Younger doctors (under age 45) work even …

perfect physicians should be allowed to control health care even if safeguards are needed in practice because real physicians …

physicians who experience a shortage of patients have higher income, longer and more frequent consultations and more laboratory …

manufacturers and physicians are uncertain about drug qualities. Our model assumes (i) a representative opinion leader is … (ii) manufacturers use detailing as a means to build/maintain the measure of physicians who are informed of the current … detailing to the current information sets and the measures of well-informed physicians. To illustrate the empirical implications …