Policies are made and pursue their goals through policy instruments. Furthermore, policy
instruments have become a relevant topic in many policy fields due to their theoretical and …

Policy studies to date have focused almost exclusively on the “good” side of policy
formulation, that is, dealing with concerns around ensuring that knowledge is marshalled …

Policy failures are often assumed to be unintentional and anomalous events about which
well-intentioned governments can learn why they occurred and how they can be corrected …

Getting the incentives (and disincentives) right in order to ensure proper levels of
compliance with government initiatives is a vital assumption of much of the writings on policy …

For many years, evidence from the USA has pointed out to the existence of upcoding in
management practices. Upcoding is defined as classifying patients in diagnosis‐related …

Many publicly funded health systems use activity‐based financing to increase hospital
production and efficiency. The aim of this study is to investigate whether price changes for …

Indonesia is currently in an honesty crisis, especially in financial governance, bothin
government and private institutions. Our study uses the concept of financial intelligence …

Policy designs must not only “work” in the sense of accomplishing their goals but must also
work in their intended fashion. Most research to date has focused on the former topic and …

We study the effect of institutional quality on the appropriateness of healthcare provision in
Italian hospitals. We focus on cesarean section rates for first-time mothers, which is a …

Dishonest behavior significantly increases the cost of medical care provision. Upcoding of
patients is a common form of fraud to attract higher reimbursements. Imposing audit …