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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.

DE / Germany - Duitsland - Allemagne --- 338.78 --- 368.42 --- Diensten. Non-profitsector. --- Ziekte- en invaliditeitsverzekering. Ziekenfondsen. --- Political economy --- Health economics --- Welfare economics --- Medical care --- Competition. --- Medical policy. --- Medical economics. --- Economics, Medical. --- Healthcare Financing. --- Finance. --- Health Financing --- Financing, Health --- Financing, Healthcare --- Financings, Health --- Financings, Healthcare --- Health Financings --- Healthcare Financings --- Medical Economics --- Medicine --- Economics, Medical --- Health --- Hygiene --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Competition --- Competition (Economics) --- Competitiveness (Economics) --- Economic competition --- Commerce --- Conglomerate corporations --- Covenants not to compete --- Industrial concentration --- Monopolies --- Open price system --- Supply and demand --- Trusts, Industrial --- economics --- Economic aspects --- Government policy --- Diensten. Non-profitsector --- Ziekte- en invaliditeitsverzekering. Ziekenfondsen --- Care --- Gesundheitsökonomik --- Gesundheitspolitik --- Gesundheitswesen --- Hausarztprinzip --- Nuscheler --- Preisregelung --- Preisregulierung --- Qualität --- Regulation --- Risikoselektion --- Systems --- Wettbewerbspolitik