Traditional economic analysis has proposed well known remedies to deal with consumption externalities and inefficient … of R&D and consumption externalities is central to health care industries around the world generally, and for the … altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies such as Medicaid in the US. We stress that standard remedies to the two …

from patient interests, especially when providers are motivated more by profits than by altruism. We investigate how profit …

empirical work testing the seemingly appealing models of altruism and exchange has led to decidedly mixed results. A major … question that directly asks mother about the planned division of their estates. We find that both altruism and exchange are …

one's own contributions (impure altruism) and others contributions (pure altruism). Using multiple data sets from Germany …

heavily influenced by the strength of their altruism toward their parents and social norms …

A longstanding literature highlights the tension between the altruism of physicians and their desire for profit. We … develop new implications for how these competing forces determine pricing and utilization. Altruism encourages providers to …