On Competition and Regulation in Health Care Systems

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The work On Competition and Regulation in Health Care Systems represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

On Competition and Regulation in Health Care Systems

Statement of responsibility

Robert Nuscheler

Creator

• Nuscheler, Robert

Author

• Nuscheler, Robert

Subject

• Medical care -- Finance
• Medical economics
• Competition
• Medical policy

Language

eng

Summary

Health care systems are under reform in many countries. This typically involves a shift towards more competition. But still, markets are highly regulated. This study analyzes competition and regulatory measures in four important fields using the modern tools of microeconomic theory and microeconometrics. The book demonstrates how price regulation interacts with the quality of care and shows that non-price competition amongst providers affects the social desirability of a gatekeeping system. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the conventional wisdom of risk selection by German sickness funds is challenged

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• Free online access: JSTOR

Biographical or historical data

The Author: Robert Nuscheler, born in Berlin in 1969, studied from 1991 to 1998 Economics and Mathematics at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Limerick. From 1998 to 2001 he was a research fellow at the Institute of Public Finance and Social Policy (FU Berlin). In 2001 he joined the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), where he works as a research fellow in the unit Market Processes and Governance.

Cataloging source

PLANG

Dewey number

362.1/0681

Dissertation note

Doctoral Thesis.

Index

no index present

LC call number

RA410.5

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• theses

Series statement

Finanzwissenschaftliche Schriften

Series volume

112