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A Probability Approach to Pharmaceutical Demand and Price Setting : Does the Identity of the Third-Party Payer Matters for Prescribing Doctors?
Dalen, Dag Morten - 2011
TNF-alpha inhibitors represent one of the most important areas of biopharmaceuticals by sales, with three blockbusters accounting for 8 per cent of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. Novelty of the paper is to examine, with the use of a unique natural policy experiment in Norway, to what...
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A Multiple Testing Approach to the Regularisation of Large Sample Correlation Markets
Bailey, Natalia - 2014
This paper proposes a novel regularisation method for the estimation of large covariance matrices, which makes use of insights from the multiple testing literature. The method tests the statistical significance of individual pair-wise correlations and sets to zero those elements that are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051612
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To Pool or Not to Pool : Revisited
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015
This paper provides a new comparative analysis of pooled least squares and fixed effects estimators of the slope coefficients in the case of panel data models when the time dimension (T) is fixed while the cross section dimension (N) is allowed to increase without bounds. The individual effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019853
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Sustainable Reimbursements : Towards a Unified Framework for Pricing Drugs with Significant Uncertainties
Chassang, Sylvain - 2018
Recent political events have thrust the bulk negotiation of drug prices by Medicare and Medicaid back into the spotlight. Yet, even if politically feasible, there is no clear framework for negotiating prices of new drugs with uncertain target populations — for example, due to imprecise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925248
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Reference Pricing of Pharmaceuticals
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Königbauer, Ingrid; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
We consider a therapeutic market with potentially three pharmaceutical firms. Two of the firms offer horizontally differentiated brand-name drugs. One of the brand-name drugs is a new treatment under patent protection that will be introduced if the profits are sufficient to cover the entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317373
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Is Medicines Parallel Trade 'Regulatory Arbitrage'?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2015
In the European Union, medicines are regulated products subject to both single market (e.g., regional exhaustion of property rights) and country specific health care regulations (e.g., medicines pricing). This gives rise to parallel trade (PT), a phenomenon that takes place when a patented...
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Competition and Physician Behaviour : Does the Competitive Environment Affect the Propensity to Issue Sickness Certificates?
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2017
Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944981
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Wages Anatomy. Labor Supply of Nurses and a Comparison with Physicians
Andreassen, Leif - 2014
are young (less than physicians), but there is also a weak tendency of higher mobility again when they are approaching … physicians). These low elasticities shadow for stronger responses, shifting labor away from part time jobs in the public and … physicians the impact is stronger …
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Do Medical Doctors Respond to Economic Incentives?
Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria L.; Strøm, Steinar - 2021
A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The … model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of … cut moves married physicians towards full time job packages, in particular to full time jobs in the private sector. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315919
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A Spatial Cliff-Ord-Type Model with Heteroskedastic Innovations : Small and Large Sample Results
Arraiz, Irani - 2008
In this paper we specify a linear Cliff and Ord-type spatial model. The model allows for spatial lags in the dependent variable, the exogenous variables, and disturbances. The innovations in the disturbance process are assumed to be heteroskedastic with an unknown form. We formulate a multi-step...
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