Imitative Pricing: The Importance of Neighborhood Effects in Physicians' Consultation Prices
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- Benjamin Montmartin & Marcos Herrera-Gómez, 2022. "Imitative Pricing: the Importance of Neighborhood Effects in Physicians’ Consultation Prices," Working Papers 123, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
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Keywords
Imitative pricing; Health care access; Local competition; Spatial effects;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2022-02-21 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-HEA-2022-02-21 (Health Economics)
- NEP-URE-2022-02-21 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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