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Cost-containment in health care: The case of Spain from the eighties up to 1997
López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of health care expenditure in Spain during the period 1980-1997, and henceforth to comment on the cost containment measures put forward to control its growth. The paper is divided into three separate sections. The first offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248447
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Cost-containment in health care: The case of Spain from the eighties up to 1997
López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of health care expenditure in Spain during the period 1980-1997, and henceforth to comment on the cost containment measures put forward to control its growth. The paper is divided into three separate sections. The first offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704865
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R&D in the pharmaceutical industry: A world of small innovations
Domínguez, Beatriz; Ganuza, Juan José; Llobet, Gerard - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
It is commonly argued that in recent years pharmaceutical companies have directed their R&D towards small improvements of existing compounds instead of more risky drastic innovations. In this paper we show that the proliferation of these small innovations is likely to be linked to the lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772335
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Drug innovation, prices and health
Ortún, Vicente; Puig, Jaume; Callejón, María - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
This article tries to reconcile economic-industrial policy with health policy when dealing with biomedical innovation and welfare state sustainability. Better health accounts for an increasingly large proportion of welfare improvements. Explanation is given to the welfare losses coming from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772457
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Quality safeguards and regulation of online pharmacies
Arruñada, Benito - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
Using econometric evidence, this article confirms that distribution of medicines online is split into two market segments of very diverse quality, and identifies the factors that drive quality and quality assurance in this activity. Unlike fraudulent, ‘rogue,’ websites, which offer scant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772554
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Employee referrals and efficiency wages
Kugler, Adriana - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002
Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This paper develops a matching model that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005708007
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Employee referrals and the inter-industry wage structure
Kugler, Adriana D. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997
This paper investigates the role of employee referrals in the labor market. Using an original data set, I find that industries that pay wage premia and have characteristics associated with high-wage sectors rely mainly on employee referrals to fill jobs. Moreover, unemployment rates are higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772463
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Testing the descriptive performance of the rank-dependent utility in the domain of health profiles
Abellán, José Mª; Pinto, José Luis - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001
Expected utility theory (EUT) has been challenged as a descriptive theory in many contexts. The medical decision … analysis context is not an exception. Several researchers have suggested that rank dependent utility theory (RDUT) may … feature of RDU models-probability weighting-but to date no direct test of this theory has been made. This paper provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704841
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La evaluación del gasto sanitario en España en sus niveles y determinantes
López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
El análisis empírico del presente trabajo trata de evaluar los resultados asociables al gasto sanitario español y como consecuencia calibrar las distintas orientaciones para el crecimiento futuro del gasto sanitario público. A la vista del estudio de los potenciales impactos procedente de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704852
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Demand for pharmaceutical drugs: A choice modelling experiment
Merino, Anna - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003
Despite the importance of supplier inducement and brand loyalty in the drug purchasing process, little empirical evidence is to be found with regard to the influence that these factors exert on patients’ decisions. Under the new scenario of easier access to information, patients are becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704920