Dr Peter Sivey

Tel. +61 3 8344 2093
Fax. +61 3 8344 2111
Email. psivey@unimelb.edu.au

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Peter Sivey is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute and started work in February 2008.  He is working on a project evaluating the introduction of a blended payments system for Australian General Practitioners and analyzing data from the MABEL project (https://mabel.org.au/).  His wider research interests include multinomial choice models, nonlinear panel data, microeconometrics in general, and microeconomic theory applied to health economics.

Peter has a BSc (Hons) Economics/Econometrics (2003), a MSc Health Economics (2005) and a PhD in Economics (2009) all from the University of York. His thesis supervisor was Professor Hugh Gravelle. 

Publications

Hugh Gravelle and Peter Sivey (2010) Imperfect information in a quality-competitive hospital market. Journal of Health Economics (forthcoming) (link)

Andrew Street, Peter Sivey, Anne Mason, Marisa Miraldo and Luigi Siciliani (2010) Are English treatment centres treating less complex patients? Health Policy 94 (2) (link)

Anthony Scott, Stefanie Schurer, Paul Jensen, and Peter Sivey (2009). The effects of an incentive program on quality of care in diabetes management. Health Economics 18 (9): 1091-1108. (link)

Working Papers

Peter Sivey The effect of waiting time and distance on hospital choice for English cataract patients. Health, Econometrics and Data Group Working Paper Series No. 10/09, University of York, 2010. (link)

Hugh Gravelle and Peter Sivey Imperfect Quality Information in a Quality-Competitive Hospital Market. Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 05/2009. 2009. (link)

Anne Mason, Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani, Peter Sivey and Andrew Street. Establishing a fair playing field for payment by results. CHE Research Paper 39. Centre for Health Economics, University of York. 2008

Anthony Scott, Stefanie Schurer, Paul H. Jensen, and Peter Sivey. The Effects of Financial Incentives on Quality of Care: The Case of Diabetes. Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series No. 12/2008. 2008

Reports

Anthony Scott, Lucio Naccarella, John Furler, Doris Young, Peter Sivey, Driss Ait-Ouakrim, Lisa Willenberg. Financial incentives and the quality of primary health care in Australia. Report to the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra January 2010.

Anthony Scott and Peter Sivey Refining the National Workforce Planning Model Report to the National Health Workforce Taskforce, November 2009.

Anthony Scott, Peter Sivey, Vin Massaro, Catherine Joyce, Ernst Healey, Peter Brooks, Lorraine Perry Sonography Workforce in Victoria Report to Department of Human Services, Victoria, January 2009. (link)