Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in … observe the same GP in two different competitive environments; with competition (own practice) and without competition …

We study the impact of exposing hospitals in a National Health Service (NHS) to non-price competition by exploiting a … patient choice reform in Norway in 2001. The reform facilitates a difference-in-difference research design due to geographical … variation in the scope for competition. Using rich administrative data covering the universe of NHS hospital admissions from …

more agressive, which triggers price competition and potentially deters entry by generic producers. To investigate the … counter- vailing effects, we exploit a policy reform in Norway with a gradual implementation of reference pricing across … branded and generic drug prices and branded market shares. Despite fiercer price competition, the number of generic producers …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in … observe the same GP in two different competitive environments; with competition (own practice) and without competition …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in … observe the same GP in two different competitive environments; with competition (own practice) and without competition …

We study the impact of regulatory regimes on generic competition and pharmaceutical pricing using a unique policy … experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub-sample of off-patent products … that RP increases generic competition, resulting in lower brand-name market shares. Finally, we show that RP has a strong …