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Multiple criteria decision analysis for value based assessment of new medical technologies: a conceptual framework

Kanavos, Panos; Angelis, Aris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Assessing the value of new medical technologies may require new approaches that take into account a more comprehensive set of parameters than the incremental cost/QALY. It is argued that MCDA can fulfil this role and has the potential to be methodologically superior to the currently used...

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Determinants of branded prescription medicine prices in OECD countries

Kanavos, Panos G.; Vandoros, Sotiris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

impact of distribution margins and generic entry on public prices and to what extent innovation, by means of introducing … after generic entry in the United States, a phenomenon known as the ‘generics paradox’. Finally, distribution and taxes are …

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Free to choose?: reform and demand response in the English National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

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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The changing role of government in financing health care: an international perspective

Stabile, Mark; Thomson, Sarah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

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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Do you have to win it to fix it?: a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand

Cheng, Terence C.; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...

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Fiscal federalism and European health system decentralization: a perspective

Costa-i-Font, Joan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

How does fiscal decentralisation affect the development of a health system? Evidence from health care decentralisation in Europe can offer some insights to the question above. This paper addresses the effects of health care decentralisation in Europe, and reviews some of the key questions on the...

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Multiple-product firms and product switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness, and determinants of product switching by US manufacturing firms. We find that one-half of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that product switching is correlated with both firm- and firm-product attributes, and...

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Minimum wages and firm profitability

Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

reductions resulted in increases in firm exit, so our findings may be consistent with redistribution of quasi-rents towards low …

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Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics

Bernard, Andrew B.; Bradford Jensen, J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....

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Heterogeneous mark-ups, growth and endogenous misallocation

Peters, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

with firms’ innovation and entry decisions, which determine the economy’s growth rate. To study this link between … relationship between growth, misallocation and welfare. It stresses the importance of entry. An increase in entry reduces … misallocation by fostering competition. If entry also increases the economy-wide growth rate, static misallocation and growth are …

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