Michael Kuhn’s Publications

Externalities in a Life-Cycle Model with Endogenous Survival, Journal of Mathematical Economics, in press (with S. Wrzaczek, A. Prskawetz and G. Feichtinger).
Optimal Public Provision of Nursing Homes and the Role of Information, Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming (with R. Nuscheler).
The Reproductive Value as Part of the Shadow Price of Population, Demographic Research 24, 709-718, 2011 (with G. Feichtinger, A. Prskawetz and S. Wrzaczek).
The Reproductive Value in Distributed Optimal Control Models, Theoretical Population Biology, 77, 164-170, 2010 (with S. Wrzaczek, A. Prskawetz and G. Feichtinger).
Recognizing Progeny in the Value of Life, Economics Letters 107, 17-21, 2010 (with S. Wraczeck and J. Oeppen).
Performance Indicators for Quality with Costly Falsification, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 18, 1137-1154, 2009 (with L. Siciliani).
Minimum Quality Standards and Market Dominance in Vertically Differentiated Duopoly, International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, 275-290, 2007.
Direct to Consumer Advertising in Pharmaceutical Markets, Journal of Health Economics 25, 102-130, 2006 (with K.R. Brekke).
Decentralisation Strategies and Provider Incentives in Healthcare: Evidence from the English National Health Service, Applied Economics and Health Policy 4, 47-54, 2005 (with R. Mannion, M. Goddard and A. Bate)..

Labour Markets and Demographic Change, Wiesbaden: VS Research, 2009 (editor, with C. Ochsen).
The Greening of Markets: Product Competition, Pollution and Policy-Making in an Environmentally Differentiated Industry, ‘New Approaches in Environmental Economics’ series (eds. H. Folmer and W. Oates), Cheltenham UK, Northampton, Ma. USA: Edward Elgar, 2005.
Quality in Primary Care: Economic Approaches to Analysing Quality-Related Physician Behaviour, Office of Health Economics, London, 2003.

Knowledge Transfer within Teams and Demographic Change, in M. Kuhn and C. Ochsen (eds.), Labour Markets and Demographic Change, Wiesbaden: VS Research, 2009 (with P. Hetze).
Environmental Policy, Firm Location and Green Consumption, in M. Accutt and P. Mason (eds.), Environmental Valuation, Economic Policy and Sustainability: Recent Advances in Environmental Economics, Cheltenham UK, Northampton, Ma. USA: Edward Elgar, 1998.
Going Green or Going Abroad? Environmental Policy, Firm Location and Green Consumerism, in N. Hanley and H. Folmer (eds.), Game Theory and the Environment, Cheltenham UK and Northamption, Ma. USA: Edward Elgar, 1998.
Produktdifferenzierung und Sustainable Development – Was kann die Industrieökonomik zu den neueren Ansätzen der Umweltökonomie beitragen? [Product Differentiation and Sustainable Development – What can Industrial Economics Contribute towards the New Approaches in Environmental Economics?], in J. Köhn and M.J. Welfens (eds.), Neue Ansätze der Umwelökonomie, Marburg: Metropolis, 1996.

Training and Wissenstransfer in alternden Belegschaften [Training and Knowledge Transfer within an Ageing Workforce], Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 54, 721-730, 2007 (with P. Hetze).

Optimal Choice of Health and Retirement in a Life-Cycle Model, LEPAS Conference Proceedings 2011-18, 2011 (with S. Wrzaczek, A. Prskawetz, and G. Feichtinger).
Savings and Health Investments under Risk Aversion Towards Length of Life – LEPAS Conference Proceedins 2010-15 , 2010 (with H. Holler and A. Prskawetz).
On the Competitive Effect of Advertising, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration: NHH Discussion Paper 16-09, 2009 (with K.R. Brekke).
Demographic and Geographic Determinants of Regional Physician Supply, University of Rostock: Thünen-Series of Applied Economic Theory Discussionpaper 105, 2009 (with C. Ochsen).
Anpassung regionaler medizinischer Versorgung im demographischen Wandel in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rostock Center Discussion Paper 23, 2009.
Upcoding and Optimal Auditing in Health Care (or: the Economics of DRG Creep), CEPR Discussion Paper 6689, 2008 (with L. Siciliani).

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