@techreport{Gre2005Price,
abstract = {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.},
author = {Stefan Gre\ss{} and Marcus Tamm and Harald Tauchmann and J\"{u}rgen Wasem},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C33; I18; 330; Competition; generalized method of moments; health insurance},
language = {eng},
number = {28},
title = {Price elasticities and social health insurance choice in Germany: a dynamic panel data approach},
type = {RWI Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18579},
year = {2005}
}
