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Physician Density and Infant Mortality : A Semiparametric Analysis of the Returns to Health Care Provision

Liebert, Helge - 2018

This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood diseases. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936 based on historical sources. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by...

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Physicians and the Production of Health : Returns to Health Care During the Mortality Transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health...

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Coinsurance vs. Copayments : Reimbursement Rules for a Monopolistic Medical Product with Competitive Health Insurers

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2021

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...

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Reference pricing, competition, and pharmaceutical expenditures: Theory and evidence from a natural experiment

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2010

We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using … a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub …-sample of off-patent products. First, we construct a vertical differentiation model to analyze the impact of regulation on …

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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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Margins and market shares: Pharmacy incentives for generic substitution

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2012

We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies' incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to purchase a generic version instead. We show that pharmacies' substitution...

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Health Expenditures and the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Prevention in International Comparison

Hansen, Jaqueline; Reinecke, Antonia; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2021

In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments had to rely on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in their struggle against the spread of the virus. The stringency of the lockdowns differed across space and time as governments had to adjust their strategy dynamically to the country-specific...

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Plugging Gaps in Payment Systems : Evidence from the Take-Up of New Medicare Billing Codes

Clemens, Jeffrey; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - 2021

Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We show that the take-up of these new billing codes is gradual and exhibits substantial variations across markets and...

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Medical Innovations and Ageing : A Health Economics Perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...

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Health and Aging Before and after Retirement

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2021

We investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 European countries. Occupational groups are classified...

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