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Externalities from Medical Innovation : Evidence from Organ Transplantation
Callison, Kevin; Darden, Michael; Teltser, Keith F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We evaluate the introduction of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for Hepatitis C (HCV) on liver transplant allocation in the United States. We develop a model of listing and organ acceptance behavior for patients with both HCV-positive and HCV-negative end-stage liver disease. In the model,...
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The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008
As an empirical example of this externality, we analyze the innovation induced by the obesity epidemic. Obesity is … associated with an increase in the incidence of many diseases. The induced innovation hypothesis is that an increase in the … incidence of a disease will increase technological innovation specific to that disease. The empirical economics literature has …
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