, the Netherlands, and New Zealand -- and examines their effects on the availability of new drugs, reimbursement levels … contribution approach to subsidizing insurance coverage. Although a major purpose of RP is to stimulate competition, theory …

implications of these changes for the nature and consequences of competition in health care markets. In this paper, we summarize … industry for competition, efficiency, and public policy. As will become apparent, this area offers a number of intriguing …

The impact of insurer competition on welfare, negotiated provider prices, and premiums in the U.S. private health care … industry is theoretically ambiguous. Reduced competition may increase the premiums charged by insurers and their payments made …

of market structure on quality of health care. The paper then moves on to consider competition in health insurance …

Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand …

Reservations. The regime change represents a unique opportunity to quantify brand loyalty because it almost doubled the price of … premium-brand cigarettes, while Native brands were still untaxed. We use data from two different sources--the New York State … three-quarters remained brand loyal …

merchandise of similar quality suggests that they value the prestige, or status, associated with brand-name trademarks … with a given label. But counterfeits allow consumers to unbundle the status and quality attributes of the brand …-name products, and alter the competition among oligopolistic trademark owners. We analyze two policies designed to combat …

. Conspicuous characteristics fulfilled many of the functions that patents, trademarks, and brand names do today. The words that … referred to products with conspicuous characteristics served as brand names in the Middle Ages. Data drawn from an array of …

typically assumed ad-hoc in customer market and brand switching cost models. A central result of the paper is that deep habits …

Investments in brand provide one method for vendors to become known and convince potential customers that vendors will … their commitments can serve a similar function and may undermine investments in brand. This study uses a 13-month panel … whether information use undermines brand. We find that individuals who take up using price comparison sites reduce their …