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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; Locatelli Biey, Marilena; Sorisio, Enrico - 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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Do medical doctors respond to economic incentives?

Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2012

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 part time/full time, hospital/primary care,...

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Strategic interaction in the market for physician services : the treadmill effect in a fixed budget system

Benstetter, Franz; Wambach, Achim - 2001

We examine the strategic interaction in the market for physician services when the total budget for reimbursement is … coordination problem, which potentially leads to the treadmill effect. For the institutional setting of German primary physician …

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A panel data study of physicians labor supply : the case of Norway

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bratberg, Espen; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2003

Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation...

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Health service gatekeepers

Malcomson, James - 2003

Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treat-ment costs must...

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Wages anatomy : labor supply of nurses and a comparison with physicians

Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2014

We estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of Registered Nurses’ labor supply with random terms. A distinguished feature of our model is that random terms are correlated over time and jobs (habit persistence). Past options and not only the past optimal choices matter for the current choices....

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Selling reputation when going out of business : presented at CEFifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation, March 2004

Hakenes, Hendrik; Peitz, Martin - CESifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation … - 2004

Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has to retire even though ownership change is observable? We consider a competitive market in which a share of owners must retire in each period. New owners, observing only recent profits, bid for the firms on sale. Customers are...

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Gatekeeping in health care

Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Nuscheler, Robert (contributor) - 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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Physician effects in antibiotic prescribing : evidence from physician exits

Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2021

demand. We measure the causal effect of physician practice style on antibiotic intake and health outcomes exploiting … variation in patient-physician relations due to physician exits in general practice in Denmark. We estimate that physician … antibiotic resistance are most effective when aimed at improving physician decision-making, in particular when they target high …

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Does your doctor matter? : doctor quality and patient outcomes

Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie; Willage, Barton; … - 2022

We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality in an entire country …

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