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arbitration system impacts important outcomes in the employer-sponsored health insurance market, namely negotiated rates and health plan network structure.

tion in the health care sector, with the resulting availability of comprehensive data, enables the provision of personalised therapies and performance-based payments. If the digital health sector is to [...] threat by requiring platform companies with market dominance to share data. The planned European Health Data Space (EHDS) is intended to create economically usable data access through standardised spe [...] in their article for the magazine Wirtschaftsdienst. - As data become increasingly available, the health care sector is undergoing a fundamental digital transformation. This affects both the types of treatment

different sources: (i) medical information or public health messages, including obfuscation from the tobacco industry, (ii) learning from individual health shocks,  and (iii) social learning, understood [...] The authors estimate the model using data on smoking behavior, health information and data on beliefs on the effect of smoking on health that cover several decades and different social groups. The estimated

declines in the health of elderly Taiwanese adults disrupts the life cycles of their adult children. Rather than causing substitution away from the labor force, elderly parental health shocks are followed [...] care workers can attenuate the negative associations between old-age health issues and family outcomes, improving the survival, health, and well-being of adult children of the elderly. [...] followed by increased mortality, poorer indicators of health, and reduced marriage and fertility rates. Burdensome care needs are likely a key mechanism, judging from the observable characteristics that predict

- Under the title “Health for All? Ethical Reflections on the Distribution of Scarce Resources”, Frister highlighted ethical issues that arise from conflicts between individual health care provision, social

utero and around birth involve exposure to severe stress and hence may lead to long-run effects on health and abilities at high ages. The authors of the study presented in this Mannheim Applied Seminar exploit

The paper presented in this ZEW Research Seminar investigates the health and pollution externalities caused by transboundary particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) between Germany and Poland. Utilizing

from 20 to 21 September 2025 in the Chinese capital and focused on the key themes of Green Economy, Health Management and Global South Cooperation. - With a keynote delivered by Professor Philipp Böing, ZEW

database on public expenditure and revenue and their components—particularly education and health expenditure—covering all world regions over the 1800-2025 period. We document a large rise

expanding its research on health care markets and systems, ZEW Mannheim is strengthening the scientific basis for a future-proof health care system. This benefits not only health care provision in the R [...] the analysis and the design of digital health care markets. This paves the way for an expansion of the Institute's activities by establishing an independent health economics research unit. A project group [...] shape the data-driven transformation of the health care system. It plans to focus on the following three key topics: market structures in the digitalised health care system, new data-based remuneration