This chapter reviews the theory and empirical literature on physician market power,
behavior, and motives, referred to collectively as the issue of “physician agency.” The …

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health
Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the …

Background Data are lacking on the proportion of physicians who face malpractice claims in
a year, the size of those claims, and the cumulative career malpractice risk according to …

Background: The health implications of regional differences in Medicare spending are
unknown. Objective: To determine whether regions with higher Medicare spending provide …

ContextHow often physicians alter their clinical behavior because of the threat of malpractice
liability, termed defensive medicine, and the consequences of those changes, are central …

This paper reports analyses of data obtained using a field‐based questionnaire in which
253 auditors from one Big 5 firm recalled and described 515 specific experiences they had …

Concerns about reducing the rate of growth of health expenditures have reignited interest in
medical liability reforms and their potential to save money by reducing the practice of …

Economics is not only a social science, it is a genuine science. Like the physical sciences,
economics uses a methodology that produces refutable implications and tests these …

Authors often add covariates to a base model sequentially either to test a particular
coefficient's “robustness” or to account for the “effects” on this coefficient of adding …

We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack
care from 1985 to 1994. We examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital …