Professional norms and physician behavior: homo oeconomicus or homo hippocraticus?
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- Kesternich, Iris & Schumacher, Heiner & Winter, Joachim, 2015. "Professional norms and physician behavior: Homo oeconomicus or homo hippocraticus?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 1-11.
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social preferences; allocation of medical resources; professional norms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
- I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2014-03-22 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2014-03-22 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2014-03-22 (Health Economics)
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