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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European … is price differences across countries, the propagation mechanism lies in (a) the way drug prices are regulated across … drug prices are regulated. The implications that flow from our study are that a more flexible and competitive and less …

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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

This paper investigates the determinants of the prices of branded prescription medicines across different regulatory settings and health care systems, taking into account their launch date, patent status, market dynamics and the regulatory context in which they diffuse. By using volume-weighted...

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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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Cooperatives vs. outside ownership

Hart, Oliver; Moore, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

constitutions: non-profit cooperatives and outside ownership. In the former, ownership is shared among a group of consumers on a one …

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Product market competition returns to skill and wage inequality

Guadalupe, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity...

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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations

Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

We model the coordination of specialised tasks inside an organisation as "attribute matching". Using this method, we compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In our framework, organisational forms affect the...

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Hierarchic contracting

Sanchez, Miguel A.; Hortala-Vallve, Rafael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We analyze the contracting structure in a moral hazard setting with several agents where output is produced jointly and is the only contractible variable. Since the salary of each agent is a function of all agents efforts, a positive externality arises between them. This externality is not...

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Offshoring: general equilibrium effects on wages, production and trade

Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as ‘shadow migration’ and shows that this allows straightforward derivation of the general equilibrium effects on...

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