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Keywords

Health economics; Health Policy; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Analysis

Research group(s)

• Health Economics
  Research Area: Major research areas include the socioeconomic aspects of health, the organisation and evaluation of health care services and health systems, and the comparative costs, benefits and cost-effectiveness of relevant preventative, diagnostic and treatment options.
  Members:
  Dennis Wienand
  Nataša Perić
  Claudia Fischer
  Michael Berger

Research interests

My research areas are health economics, health econometrics, health inequality and (health) policy evaluation. My work focuses on the financial sustainability and equity of healthcare systems, and institutional causes behind regional variation in epidemiology and health care use.

Selected publications

1. Berger, M., Six, E. and Czypionka, T. (2023) ‘Policy implications of heterogeneous demand reactions to changes in cost-sharing: Patient-level evidence from Austria’, Social Science & Medicine, p. 116488. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116488.
2. Berger, M., Sommersguter-Reichmann, M. and Czypionka, T. (2020) ‘Determinants of soft budget constraints: How public debt affects hospital performance in Austria’, Social Science & Medicine, 249, p. 112855. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112855.
3. Berger, M. and Czypionka, T. (2021) ‘Regional medical practice variation in high-cost healthcare services’, The European Journal of Health Economics, 22(6), pp. 917–929. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-021-01298-w.
4. Berger, M. et al. (2022) ‘Exploring the effectiveness of demand-side retail pharmaceutical expenditure reforms’, International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 23(1), pp. 149–172. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09337-6.
5. Berger, M., Zuba, M. and Simon, J. (2025) ‘Urban–rural disparities in hospital admissions for depression in Austria’, Health Policy, 151, p. 105209. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.105209.