Journal articles
Better politicians, fewer deaths? Local resilience in overcoming the pandemic crisis in Italy
The study looks at how different parts of Italy dealt with COVID-19 by comparing mortality data. One clear finding stands out: the competence of local administrators helped communities get through the crisis better.
Digital health and social inequality: Population-based evidence from MyHealth platform use in Catalonia
The study looks at who really uses digital health tools, analysing nearly 10 years of data from 9.46 million people in Catalonia. One clear finding stands out: despite universal access, digital health widened existing gaps, leaving older adults, migrants.
The study compares how public and private Italian hospitals bounced back after COVID-19 by tracking planned admissions across 1,026 hospitals. One clear finding stands out: private hospitals recovered much faster, while public ones, especially those facing nearby private competitors, lagged behind.
Measuring hospital care resilience: a systematic literature review
This study reviews 45 studies on how researchers measure hospital resilience during health crises like COVID-19. One clear finding stands out: most research only captures how hospitals cope in the moment, while almost none looks at whether they truly transform and improve for the future.
Spatial Competition Across Borders: The Role of Patients’ Mobility and Institutional Settings
When patients can freely choose hospitals in another region, do quality differences fade? This paper models health systems that differ in efficiency, costs, and organisation. It finds that cross-border mobility improves welfare yet doesn’t guarantee smaller gaps, so how it’s regulated matters
Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision
Can lab experiments reveal what really drives doctors’ choices? This study reviews 56 experiments testing how physicians decide under different incentives. It shows payment schemes shape treatment levels, yet altruism, experience and patient needs matter just as much as financial reward.
Information provision and financial incentives in Catalonia’s public primary care (2010–2019): an interrupted time series analysis
Can showing doctors how they’re doing improve care as much as paying them to? Using ten years of data from 272 primary care practices in Catalonia, this study compares information feedback with financial incentives, finding that information alone matches or beats pay-for-performance.
With a little help from my (neighbouring) friends. ‘Border region patient mobility’ in the European Union: A policy analysis
Can neighbouring EU countries make it easier for patients to be treated just across the border? Using a spatial model and an analysis of EU law, this study finds that charging treatment at marginal cost lifts patient welfare without raising spending, and proposes jointly applying EU rules.
Assessing risk attitudes among physicians, medical students, and non-medical students with experimental data
Do doctors approach risk differently from the students often used to represent them in experiments? Analysing 433 participants across four studies, this paper shows physicians are consistently less risk-averse—a gap that should make researchers wary of treating students as their proxies.
EU excess capacity management through member states-driven patient mobility: economic and legal aspects
Can EU member states reduce healthcare excess capacity through cross-border patient mobility, and is it compatible with EU law? This paper argues yes to both, showing it can improve welfare while remaining consistent with existing EU legal frameworks.