inelastic, then tort reform will not affect physicians' net income or location decisions. I use county-level, specialty …-specific annual counts of physicians from 1970 to 2000 to estimate the effect of damage caps on physician supply. The results suggest … appear to increase the supply of frontier rural, specialist physicians by 10-12 percent. This is likely because rural doctors …

If medical malpractice reform affects the supply of physicians, the effects will be concentrated in specialties facing … Malpractice Reform Help States Retain Physicians and Does it Matter?" …

choices. We utilize data from a prescriber panel comprising 681 physicians collectively serving 68,362 patients under- going … treatments compared to those with public insurance. Furthermore, the composition of physicians' practices plays a crucial role in …

Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …

strong position on the market for health care services. Physicians exert a type of monopolistic power which can be described … counterbalance the strong bargaining position of the physicians. Thus, health care expenditure is higher, financing either extra … profits for physicians or a higher number of them. In addition, health insurers do not have an incentive to contract …

review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model …