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Impacts of Patent Expiry and Regulatory Policies on Daily Cost of Pharmaceutical Treatments: OECD Countries, 2004-2010
Berndt, Ernst R; Dubois, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
number patient days treated using the World Health Organizations’ Defined Daily Dosage metrics; (iii) compare patterns in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083891
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Reference-Dependent Preferences and Loss Aversion: A Discrete Choice Experiment In the Health-Care Sector
Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived … with non-tangible attributes. A health-care event is used for empirical illustration: The loss aversion theory is tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792351
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Nutrition and Risk Sharing Within the Household
Dubois, Pierre; Ligon, Ethan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
expect if food consumption delivers not only utils, but also nutrients affecting future productivity. The efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491719
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Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies
Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
experience on preferences for attributes of health-care events. We are using two very different samples and a methodology that … facilitates the estimation of marginal utilities of various attributes of a composite non-traded health-care service. Discrete … is that preferences for health-care attributes are significantly changed as a result of experience with the health event …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123715
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Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences for a Health-Care Service
Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for … basic findings are that preferences change significantly as a result of experience with the health event; that the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656214
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Heterogeneity of Preferences, Limited Commitment and Coalitions: Empirical Evidence on the Limits to Risk Sharing in Rural Pakistan
Dubois, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In this paper, we study the determinants of the value of informal risk sharing groups. In particular, we look at the effects of heterogeneity of preferences and of limited commitment constraints that restrict feasible allocations differently if individuals can deviate form risk sharing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791230
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Facilitating Consumer Learning in Insurance Markets—What Are the Welfare Effects?
Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about … their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083449
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Monopoly Insurance with Endogenous Information
Lagerlöf, Johan N. M.; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084544
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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma
Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Suppose an altruistic person - A - is willing to transfer resources to a second person - B - if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents’ point of view. This is the Samaritan’s dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497793