Credence Goods Markets with Heterogeneous Experts

J.M.J. Heinzel, Credence Goods Markets with Heterogeneous Experts, CIE Working Paper Series, Paderborn University, 2019.

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In this paper, we analyze a credence goods model adjusted to the health care market with regulated prices and heterogeneous experts. Experts are physicians and are assumed to differ in their cost of treating a small problem. We investigate the effects of this heterogeneity on the physicians’ level of fraud and on the patients’ search for second opinions. We find that introducing a fraction of more efficient low-cost physicians always increases social welfare, but in some cases only because of the raised physicians’ surplus. When the low-cost physicians’ cost advantage is small, imposing a share of low-cost physicians does not change the equilibrium fraud level. When the cost advantage is large, however, different changes in the fraud level occur depending on the share of generated low-cost physicians, the search rate and the initial level of fraud.
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Heinzel JMJ. Credence Goods Markets with Heterogeneous Experts. Vol 118. Paderborn University: CIE Working Paper Series; 2019.
Heinzel, J. M. J. (2019). Credence Goods Markets with Heterogeneous Experts (Vol. 118). Paderborn University: CIE Working Paper Series.
@book{Heinzel_2019, place={Paderborn University}, series={CIE Working Paper Series}, title={Credence Goods Markets with Heterogeneous Experts}, volume={118}, publisher={CIE Working Paper Series}, author={Heinzel, Joachim Maria Josef}, year={2019}, collection={CIE Working Paper Series} }
Heinzel, Joachim Maria Josef. Credence Goods Markets with Heterogeneous Experts. Vol. 118. CIE Working Paper Series. Paderborn University: CIE Working Paper Series, 2019.
J. M. J. Heinzel, Credence Goods Markets with Heterogeneous Experts, vol. 118. Paderborn University: CIE Working Paper Series, 2019.
Heinzel, Joachim Maria Josef. Credence Goods Markets with Heterogeneous Experts. Vol. 118, CIE Working Paper Series, 2019.
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