Physician pricing behavior: Evidence from an Australian experiment
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Health providers; Policy evaluation; Health insurance; Applied microeconomics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D04 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation; Implementation; Evaluation
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
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