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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...

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Consumer resistance against regulation : the case of health care

Zweifel, Peter (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor); … - 2005

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...

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What drives prescription opioid abuse? : evidence from migration

Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Williams, Heidi - 2018

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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...

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Physician dispensing and the choice between generic and brand-name drugs : do margins affect choice?

Rischatsch, Maurus; Trottmann, Maria - 2009

drug prescription and income leading to a suboptimal medication. Therefore, PD is not allowed in most OECD countries. In … prescribing behavior between physician which gain income from prescribing a specific drug and their colleagues which prescribe the … drug but do not sell it. Because the considered drugs are bioequivalent we focus on the economic consequence of PD. We …

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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]

The German health care reform of 1997 provides a natural experiment for evaluating the price sensitivity of demand for physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However, certain groups of people were exempted from the...

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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...

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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...

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Fine tuning of health insurance regulation : unhealthy consequences for an individual insurer

Schoder, Johannes; Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

This paper sheds light on some unexpected consequences of health insurance regulation that may pose a big challenge to insurers’ risk management. Because mandated uniform contributions to health insurance trigger risk selection efforts risk adjustment (RA) schemes become necessary. A good deal...

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Prostitution and violence : evidence from Sweden

Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Immordino, Giovanni; Russo, … - 2019

This paper analyzes the effects of the "Nordic Model" of prostitution legislation adopted in Sweden in 1999, according to which buyers only are prosecuted. We focus on various measures of violence, distinguishing between known and unknown perpetrator, indoor and outdoor crimes, and on health...

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