Does Price Framing Affect the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice?

This paper provides field evidence on how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health plans. In 2009 German federal regulation required insurers to express premium differences between standardized health plans in absolute euro values relative to a federal reference price, rather...

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Volume:	52
Main Author:	Schmitz, Hendrik Ziebarth, Nicolas R
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	MADISON University of Wisconsin Press 2017 UNIV WISCONSIN PRESS
published in:	The Journal of human resources Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 88 - 127
ORCID:	0000-0003-3562-2371
Data of publication:	2017
ISSN:	0022-166X 1548-8004
EISSN:	1548-8004
Discipline:	Economics Business
Subjects:	Competition Health insurance 21st century Consumer behavior Health insurance premiums History Government policy Germany Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Industrial Relations & Labor Laws, regulations and rules Analysis Health care reform Prices and rates Influence Marketing Germany ELASTICITIES ATTENTION MEDICARE PART-D INSURANCE RISK INCENTIVES MANAGED COMPETITION SELECTION PSYCHOLOGY TAX SALIENCE
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2017 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS