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 …

national insurance. -- pharmaceuticals ; discrete choice model ; funding-schemes …

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

generics and their market shares. This relationship is stronger for pharmaceuticals under reference pricing rather than …. -- pharmaceuticals ; pharmacies ; generic substitution …

-savings, and that patients' copayments decrease despite the extra surcharges under RP. -- pharmaceuticals ; regulation ; generic …

curtail the proliferation of prescription opioids. Physicians respond to monitoring on the extensive margin, limiting the …