We ask how competition influences the prescribing practices of physicians. Law changes granting nurse practitioners (NPs) the ability to prescribe controlled substances without physician collaboration or oversight generate exogenous variation in competition. In response, we find that general...

In diesem Lehr- und Fachbuch wird für alle im Gesundheitssektor tätigen Profis das deutsche Gesundheitssystem mit seinen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, komplexen Versorgungsstrukturen und unterschiedlichen Finanzierungswegen anhand von Fallbeispielen anschaulich und verständlich erläutert....

We analyze whether the possibility for physicians to dispense drugs increases health care expenditures due to the incentives created by the markup on drugs sold. Using comprehensive physician-level data from Switzerland, we exploit the fact that there is regional variation in the dispensing...

We analyze changes in the willingness to substitute from prescribed pharmaceuticals to more affordable generic equivalents in response to the first experience with a substitution. Using Swedish individual-level data of prescribed and dispensed pharmaceuticals, we employ a dynamic event study and...