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. Alternatively, for price-setting purposes, a pre-determined link between scores and prices would be needed; however, such a link …
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context in which they diffuse. By using volume-weighted price indices, this paper analyzes price levels for a basket of … newer classes of medicines, contributes to price formation across countries. In doing so, the paper seeks to understand the … significant effect on prices in all settings after having controlled for other factors. Price convergence is observed across …
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The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
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This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to elucidate the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs, and quality. Our review reveals...
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I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from 1976 to 1984, and non-parametrically identify the effect of both benefit level and potential...
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used to explain how the price and utilization of prevention change depending on demand, as well as factors such as the … price of a cure, the probability of illness, the efficacy of treatment, the probability of illness and cost functions … healthcare markets. Findings show the effect of various factors on the price of preventative healthcare, reveal the marginal …
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adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to investigate how price regulations in the OECD affect the adoption of … estimate the impact of ex-ante price and market size expectations on the probability of generic launch using discrete … heterogeneity. Ex-ante profit expectations result in faster adoption; both expected price and market size increase the probability …
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is price differences across countries, the propagation mechanism lies in (a) the way drug prices are regulated across …
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Gwyn Bevan and Matthew Skellern review evidence on the effects of hospital competition on quality of care within the English NHS and question whether they support government proposals to extend competition.
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The ability of the next US president to rein in spending on healthcare and improve the productivity of the healthcare system is largely going to determine the country’s fiscal future. That is one of the conclusions of the latest in a series of US Election Analyses , published by the Centre for...
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