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Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits : evidence from a natural experiment
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However … for physicians' services of the treated, those subject to increased co-payments, can be assessed. The differences …
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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits : an econometric analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1995-1999. A number of modified count data models allow to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001729424
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A pharmaceutical innovation : is it worth the money? Whose money?
Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
This study seeks to provide evidence for deciding whether or not a pharmaceutical innovation should be included in the benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences for modern insulin therapy. Of the 1,100 individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900791
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Empirical implications of physician authority in pharmaceutical decisionmaking
Stern, Scott; Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1998
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A taste of their own medicine : guideline adherence and access to expertise
Finkelstein, Amy; Persson, Petra; Polyakova, Maria; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012632073
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Physician dispensing and the choice between generic and brand-name drugs : do margins affect choice?
Rischatsch, Maurus; Trottmann, Maria - 2009
analyze the prescribing behavior of Swiss physicians using cross-sectional data between 2005 and 2007 for three important … agents. The results support our hypothesis that dispensing physicians have a higher probability of prescribing the drug with … the (most likely) higher margin compared to non-dispensing physicians. Further, generic drugs are prescribed more often to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900934
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Drug quality and safety issues in India
Chokshi, Maulik; Mongia, Rahul; Wattal, Vasudha - 2015
Today, the global pharmaceutical product value chain is becoming increasingly complex and this has led to the emergence of 'multiple quality standards' for medicines. But this non-uniformity in the quality of medicine is also contingent upon both the regulatory milieu in the country of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337690
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Lost horizons : the noncooperative management of an evolutionary biological system
Goeschl, Timo; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2002
This paper studies the interaction between two dynamic domains, (1) an evolutionary biological system ('the environment') whose behaviour determines the availability of a resource stock, and (2) an industry where access to the resource stock is determined by the outcome of a patent race. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597824
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Nudging the trendsetters : increasing second-dose HPV vaccination in Bogota, Colombia
Martínez, Déborah; Díaz, Lina; Maldonado Zambrano, … - 2023
This study investigates the effectiveness of dynamic norm nudges in promoting second-dose HPV vaccinations among trendsetters-parents who initiated the firstdose HPV vaccine for their daughters between 2017-2020. Utilizing administrative data from Bogota's Secretariat of Health in a field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540586
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Why the linear utility function is a risky choice in discrete-choice experiments
Sennhauser, Michèle - 2010
This article assesses how the form of the utility function in discrete-choice experiments (DCEs) affects estimates of willingness-to-pay (WTP). The utility function is usually assumed to be linear in its attributes. Non-linearities, in the guise of interactions and higher-order terms, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702182