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Is medicines parallel trade "regulatory arbitrage"?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2015
medicines conflicts with traditional sources of arbitrage (e.g., price and income differences) and instead is a form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477153
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Caregiving subsidies and spousal early retirement intentions
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022
retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform extending long-term care (LTC) benefits (in the form of subsidies and … supports) in Spain after 2007 on caregiving spouse's early retirement intention. We subsequently examine the effect of … retirement reform among private sector workers in 2013. We document evidence of a 10pp reduction in the early retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260028
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Explaining Early Adoption on New Medicines : Regulation, Innovation and Scale
Varol, Nebibe - 2014
Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the probability of launch, controlling for competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067984
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Does Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Affect the Adoption of Generic Competition? Evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Varol, Nebibe - 2014
Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068052
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Explaining early adoption on new medicines : regulation, innovation and scale
Varol, Nebibe; Costa-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair - 2011
Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the probability of launch, controlling for competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127576
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322077
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383690
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The economics of ageing
Costa-Font, Joan (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233954
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Behavioral regularities in old age planning
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 173 (2020), pp. 297-300
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288349
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Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions?
Costa-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - 2010
This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951612