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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2010
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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Commodity Taxation and Regulatory Competition
Moriconi, Simone - 2017
This paper studies theoretically and empirically competition in commodity taxation and product market regulation … taxes finance public goods, and product market regulation affects both the number of firms in the market and product … commodity taxation and product market regulation are interdependent policies. We find absence of strategic interaction in …
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Health Insurance and Diversity of Treatment : A Policy Mix Perspective
Bardey, David - 2013
We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients increases with the supply of drugs available in a therapeutic class. Health risk coverage rely on two instruments, copayment and reference pricing, that affect the supported risk composed by health expenses and...
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Does Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Affect the Adoption of Generic Competition? Evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Varol, Nebibe - 2014
Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to...
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Energy Price Reform : A Guide for Policymakers
Coady, David P. - 2017
This essay reviews the conceptual and quantitative literature on the efficient system of fossil fuel energy prices in different countries for reflecting supply and environmental costs, as well as the environmental, fiscal, and economic benefits from energy price reform. Drawing on recent...
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The Effectiveness of Taxation and Feed-In Tariffs
Antoniou, Fabio - 2014
We study (energy) markets with dirty incumbents and costly entry by clean producers. For intermediate entry costs, the market outcome exhibits inefficient production and inefficient entry. A policy mix of three popular regulatory instruments — taxation on polluters, feed-in tariffs for clean...
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Price Regulation and Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2015
This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a … that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially depend on whether the producer faces competition from parallel … imports. While parallel imports improve the bargaining position of the distributor, price regulation counteracts this effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017702
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Reference Pricing, Competition, and Pharmaceutical Expenditures : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Holmas, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
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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Green Tradable Certificates versus Feed-In Tariffs in the Promotion of Renewable Energy Shares
Requate, Tilman - 2015
The paper analyzes the relationship between CO2 mitigation policy and promotion policies designed to deploy renewable energy sources for electricity production (RES-E). If an emission cap is the only policy target, an optimal mix consisting of high and low carbon use of fossil fuels, deployment...
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Tax Policy and Employment : How Does the Swedish System Fare?
Pirttila, Jukka - 2011
This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...
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