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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18579| Title: | Price elasticities and social health insurance choice in Germany: a dynamic panel data approach |
| Keywords: | C33 I18 ddc:330 Competition generalized method of moments health insurance |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | In 1996 free choice of health insurers has been introduced in the German social health insurance scheme. Competition between insurers was supposed to increase efficiency. A crucial precondition for effective competition among health insurers is that consumers search for lower-priced health insurers.We test this hypothesis by estimating the price elasticities of insurers? market shares. We use unique panel data and specify a dynamic panel model to explain changes in market shares. Estimation results suggest that short-run price elasticities are smaller than previously found by other studies. In the long-run, however, estimation results suggest substantial price effects. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18579 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18579 ppn:488272807 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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