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Physician effects in antibiotic prescribing : evidence from physician exits
Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2021
condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …
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How does the vaccine approval procedure affect Covid-19 vaccination intentions?
Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2022
Peoples' willingness to vaccinate is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic. We devise a representative experiment to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects public attitudes towards vaccination. Compared to an Emergency Use Authorization, choosing the more thorough...
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Spreading consensus : correcting misperceptions about the views of the medical community has lasting impacts on Covid-19 vaccine take-up
Bartoš, Vojtěch; Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; … - 2022
Identifying sources of vaccine hesitancy is one of the central challenges in fighting the Covid- 19 pandemic. In this study, we focus on the role of public misperceptions of doctors' views. Motivated by widespread concern that media reports create uncertainty in how people perceive expert...
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From anti-vax intentions to vaccination : panel and experimental evidence from nine countries
Galasso, Vincenzo; Pons, Vincent; Profeta, Paola; … - 2022
Millions of people refuse COVID-19 vaccination. Using original data from two surveys in nine OECD countries, we analyze the determinants of anti-vax intentions in December 2020 and show that half of the anti-vax individuals were vaccinated by summer 2021. Vaccinations were more likely among...
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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
national insurance. -- pharmaceuticals ; discrete choice model ; funding-schemes …
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Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector
Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, Jouko - 2022
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 …
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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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Limited attention in the housing market : threshold effects of energy-performance certificates on property prices and energy-efficiency investments
Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo; Comerford, David; Moro, Mirko; … - 2020
We study the effects of limited attention on property prices and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the housing market. Using a novel dataset, we analyse over 5 million residential property sale transactions in England and Wales, each containing information about sale price, property and...
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The effect of information on market activity : evidence from vehicle recalls
Van den Bijgaart, I. M.; Cerruti, Davide - 2020
We evaluate the effect of vehicle recalls on vehicle transactions in the second-hand market. Using a rich dataset of Dutch vehicle registrations, we exploit the quasi-experimental variation in recalls across nearly-identical cars. We find strong heterogeneities across market segment: vehicles...
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The economics of recommender systems : evidence from a field experiment on MovieLens
Aridor, Guy; Gonçalves, Duarte; Kluver, Daniel; Kong, … - 2022
We conduct a field experiment on a movie-recommendation platform to identify if and how recommendations affect consumption. We use within-consumer randomization at the good level and elicit beliefs about unconsumed goods to disentangle exposure from informational effects. We find recommendations...
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