经济与金融系学术讨论会第238期

题目：Hospital Discharge: Model, Estimates, and Policy Analyses

演讲人：曹治（香港中文大学）

时间：2024年12月23日（周一）12:00-13:00

地点：同济大厦A楼505室

同步#腾讯会议：318659121

会议密码：811196

链接：https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/HoN7Mf07Ov82

摘要：One of the most important medical decisions is when to discharge a patient: it involves physicians and patients, entails information asymmetry, and occurs in dynamic contexts. Moreover, although the physician cares about the patient’s interests, her preference regarding the trade-off between the patient’s out-of-pocket expenses and health benefits may differ from the patient’s. We develop and structurally estimate a model of discharge decisions that incorporates these features. The model allows us to distinguish between the impacts of a patient’s financial incentive and a physician’s altruistic and financial incentives on treatment and welfare outcomes. Also, it enables us to isolate the effect of preference inconsistency from the effects of the three incentives. We find that all three incentives raise healthcare expense, while preference inconsistency reduces it. Drawing from our structural estimates, we investigate policies aimed at managing overall expenses while enhancing patient and social welfare, without negatively impacting physician revenue.

个人简介：香港中文大学经济学系博士候选人。研究主要集中在使用结构模型分析医疗和劳动市场的问题。并在实证分析中应用来自信息经济学、行为经济学和产业组织的理论。