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Contents
Abstract.......................................................................................................................... 3
1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 5
2 Competition in health care ....................................................................................... 8
2.1 Empirical literature on price competition ...................................................... 8
2.2 Economic studies on dental care.................................................................... 9
3 Theoretical framework ........................................................................................... 11
3.1 Consumer demand and price competition .................................................. 12
3.2 Summary ...................................................................................................... 14
4 Institutional setting and data ................................................................................. 15
4.1 Data .............................................................................................................. 16
4.2 Descriptive statistics..................................................................................... 16
4.3 Operationalization of variables .................................................................... 17
5 Empirical strategy ................................................................................................... 20
6 Results..................................................................................................................... 22
6.1 Main results.................................................................................................. 22
6.2 Sensitivity analyses....................................................................................... 23
6.3 Policy simulations ......................................................................................... 25
7 Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 29
References ................................................................................................................... 31
Appendix ...................................................................................................................... 34
Acknowledgement ....................................................................................................... 39