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Do you have to win it to fix it? A longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Cheng, Terence C.; Costa-i-Font, Joan - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individualsÂ’ income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196445
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Do you have to win it to fix it?: a longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand
Cheng, Terence C.; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206865
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Explaining Early Adoption on New Medicines: Regulation, Innovation and Scale
Varol, Nebibe; Costa-i-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair - CESifo - 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 … the impact of price interdependencies and potential firm strategies in launch and pricing decisions. The empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020788
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Does Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Affect the Adoption of Generic Competition? Evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Varol, Nebibe; Costa-i-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair - CESifo - 2011
adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to investigate how price regulations in the OECD affect the adoption of … estimate the impact of ex-ante price and market size expectations on the probability of generic launch using discrete … heterogeneity. Ex-ante profit expectations result in faster adoption; both expected price and market size increase the probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021239
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Does pharmaceutical price regulation affect the adoption of generic competition?: evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Varol, Nebibe; McGuire, Alistair - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to investigate how price regulations in the OECD affect the adoption of … estimate the impact of ex-ante price and market size expectations on the probability of generic launch using discrete … heterogeneity. Ex-ante profit expectations result in faster adoption; both expected price and market size increase the probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745148
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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
is price differences across countries, the propagation mechanism lies in (a) the way drug prices are regulated across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745350
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Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, … - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513169
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Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210819
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Measuring Health Inequality with Categorical Data: Some Regional Patterns
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013
Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701089
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Fiscal Federalism and European Health System Decentralization: A Perspective
Costa-i-Font, Joan - European Institute, London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
How does fiscal decentralisation affect the development of a health system?Evidence from health care decentralisation in Europe can offer some insights to the question above. This paper addresses the effects of health care decentralisation in Europe, and reviews some of the key questions on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729209