PT Unknown AU Avdic, D Blankart, K TI A Hard Look at “Soft” Cost‐control Measures in Healthcare Organizations: Evidence from Preferred Drug Policies in Germany SE CINCH working paper series PD 11 PY 2021 VL 2021 IS 08 DI 10.17185/duepublico/74978 LA en DE Cost-control; Healthcare; Practice Style; Difference-in-differences AB The purpose of the CINCH working paper series is to disseminate research in health economics encourage discussion in the fields of economic policy and competition in the health care sector. The series is targeted towards publishing ongoing high-quality research covering a wide range of topics within health economics, including theoretical, empirical and experimental contributions. Working papers should be full papers. The working paper series reflects the interests of CINCH such that econometric or experimental methods should form a significant component of the paper. ER