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Direct to consumer advertising in pharmaceutical markets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Kuhn, Michael - 2005

We study effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in the prescription drug market. There are two pharmaceutical … firms providing horizontally differentiated (branded) drugs. Patients differ in their susceptibility to the drugs. If DTCA …), creating a captive and a selective segment of physicians. First, we show that detailing, DTCA and price (if not regulated) are …

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Using Fees to Reduce Bed-Blocking: A Game between Hospitals and Care Providers

Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016

The Coordination Reform was introduced in Norway in 2012 including a fee for bed-blocking in hospitals. To study this, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform does not necessarily lead to less bed-blocking as this...

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Price Regulation and Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2015

This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a theory model where the producer price is subject to bargaining between the brand-name producer and a distributor, we show that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially...

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Supplier discretion over provision : theory and an application to medical care

Malcomson, James M. - 2005

Suppliers who are better informed than purchasers, such as physicians treating insured patients, often have discretion over what to provide. This paper shows how, when the purchaser observes what is supplied but can observe neither recipient type nor the actual cost incurred, optimal provision...

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Gatekeeping in health care

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005

We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...

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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2007

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit patients who choose between neighbouring hospitals (competitive...

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Supplementary private health insurance in selected countries : lessons for EU governments?

Gechert, Sebastian - 2009

A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...

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Demand patterns for treatment insurance in Norway

Aarbu, Karl Ove - 2010

In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care market. These health care services are obtained normally...

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Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2009

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices, considering both the effect of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number...

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Public versus private health care in a national health service

Brekke, Kurt R.; Sørgard, Lars - 2006

This paper studies the interaction between public and private health care provision in a National Health Service (NHS), with free public care and costly private care. The health authority decides whether or not to allow private provision and sets the public sector remuneration. The physicians...

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