ISF WP 2013-2
Table of Contents
Contents
4
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
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