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| Title: | | Price elasticities and social health insurance choice in Germany: a dynamic panel data approach  |
| Authors: | | Greß, Stefan Tamm, Marcus Tauchmann, Harald Wasem, Jürgen |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | RWI Discussion Papers 28 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Competition generalized method of moments health insurance |
| JEL: | | C33 I18 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des RWI RWI Discussion Papers
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