Pricing behavior in long term care markets: evidence from provider-level data for home help services.

IF 1.5 4区经济学 Q3 BUSINESS, FINANCE

International Journal of Health Economics and Management Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1007/s10754-022-09334-9

Remco van Eijkel, Mark Kattenberg, Ab van der Torre

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Abstract

Exploiting a rich data set on the Dutch market for home help services, we find that larger providers obtain a higher price than do small providers. However, compared to other studies on market power in care markets this price difference is considered small to moderate. Our identification strategy relies on the exogenous variation in market shares in January'07, the very first month after home help was decentralized to municipalities. Zooming in on our main outcome, we obtain that the small but significant effect of market size on price is merely driven by the pricing behavior of for-profit providers.

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长期护理市场的定价行为:来自家庭帮佣服务提供者层面数据的证据。

利用荷兰市场上丰富的家政服务数据集，我们发现大供应商比小供应商获得更高的价格。然而，与其他关于护理市场市场力量的研究相比，这种价格差异被认为是小到中等的。我们的识别策略依赖于2007年1月市场份额的外生变化，这是家政服务分散到市政当局后的第一个月。放大我们的主要结果，我们得到市场规模对价格的小而显著的影响仅仅是由营利性供应商的定价行为驱动的。

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期刊介绍： The focus of the International Journal of Health Economics and Management is on health care systems and on the behavior of consumers, patients, and providers of such services. The links among management, public policy, payment, and performance are core topics of the relaunched journal. The demand for health care and its cost remain central concerns. Even as medical innovation allows providers to improve the lives of their patients, questions remain about how to efficiently deliver health care services, how to pay for it, and who should pay for it. These are central questions facing innovators, providers, and payers in the public and private sectors. One key to answering these questions is to understand how people choose among alternative arrangements, either in markets or through the political process. The choices made by healthcare managers concerning the organization and production of that care are also crucial. There is an important connection between the management of a health care system and its economic performance. The primary audience for this journal will be health economists and researchers in health management, along with the larger group of health services researchers. In addition, research and policy analysis reported in the journal should be of interest to health care providers, managers and policymakers, who need to know about the pressures facing insurers and governments, with consequences for regulation and mandates. The editors of the journal encourage submissions that analyze the behavior and interaction of the actors in health care, viz. consumers, providers, insurers, and governments. Preference will be given to contributions that combine theoretical with empirical work, evaluate conflicting findings, present new information, or compare experiences between countries and jurisdictions. In addition to conventional research articles, the journal will include specific subsections for shorter concise research findings and cont ributions to management and policy that provide important descriptive data or arguments about what policies follow from research findings. The composition of the editorial board is designed to cover the range of interest among economics and management researchers.Officially cited as: Int J Health Econ ManagFrom 2001 to 2014 the journal was published as International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. (Articles published in Vol. 1-14 officially cited as: Int J Health Care Finance Econ)