We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient … demand. We measure the causal effect of physician practice style on antibiotic intake and health outcomes exploiting …

structural model for the three drugs, covering demand and price setting, is estimated in a joint maximum likelihood approach. We … national insurance. -- pharmaceuticals ; discrete choice model ; funding-schemes …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is …

entry by generic producers. Reference pricing shifts demand towards generics but also induces the branded producer to become …