Who benefits from quality competition in health care? A theory and a laboratory experiment on the relevance of patient characteristics.
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DOI: 10.1002/hec.4689
Abstract: We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model, physicians are faced with a heterogeneous patient population, in which patients systematically vary with regard to both their responsiveness… read more here.
Keywords: laboratory experiment; health; passive patients; competition ... See more keywords