Financial Incentives and Gaming in Alcohol Treatment

Autor: Mingshan Lu, Ching-To Albert Ma

Publikováno v: Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, Vol 43 (2006)

This study looks at the effect of performance-based contracting (PBC) on administrative information misreports in substance abuse treatment in Maine. For about 700 alcohol abuse treatment episodes in the period 1990–1995, we constructed clinician r

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Technology adoption by primary care physicians

Autor: Tor Iversen, Ching-to Albert Ma

Publikováno v: Health Economics. 31:443-465

We study primary care physicians' prevention and monitoring technology adoption. Physicians' adoption decisions are based on benefits and costs, which depend on payment incentives, educational assistance, and market characteristics. The empirical stu

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https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4447

Quality and competition between public and private firms

Autor: Liisa T. Laine, Ching-to Albert Ma

Publikováno v: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 140:336-353

We study a multistage, quality-then-price game between a public firm and a private firm. The market consists of a set of consumers who have different quality valuations. The public firm aims to maximize social surplus, whereas the private firm maximi

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.05.012

Changing Preferences: An Experiment and Estimation of Market-Incentive Effects on Altruism

Autor: Daniel Wiesen, Ching-to Albert Ma, Undral Byambadalai

Publikováno v: SSRN Electronic Journal.

This paper studies how altruistic preferences are changed by markets and incentives. We conduct a laboratory experiment in a within-subject design. Subjects are asked to choose health care qualities for hypothetical patients in monopoly, duopoly, and

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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3431002

Product differentiation with multiple qualities

Autor: Francesca Barigozzi, Ching-to Albert Ma

Publikováno v: Barigozzi, Francesca ; Ma, Ching-to Albert (2016) Product Differentiation with Multiple Qualities. Bologna: Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE, p. 43. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/5407 . In: Quaderni-Working Paper DSE (1075). ISSN 2282-6483.

We study subgame-perfect equilibria of the classical quality-price, multistage game of vertical product differentiation. Each of two firms can choose the levels of an arbitrary number of qualities. Consumers’ valuations are drawn from independent a

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http://hdl.handle.net/11585/649374