manufacturers and physicians are uncertain about drug qualities. Our model assumes (i) a representative opinion leader is … (ii) manufacturers use detailing as a means to build/maintain the measure of physicians who are informed of the current … detailing to the current information sets and the measures of well-informed physicians. To illustrate the empirical implications …

patients and physicians (observed and unobserved) characteristics play an important role in determining health status, at least … as important as drug adherence. Most importantly, we show that physicians can have an important role in determining …

Using a large set of private health insurance claims, we estimate how physicians’ financial incentives affect their … treatment choices in heart attack management. Different insurance plans pay physicians different amounts for the same services …, generating the required variation in financial incentives. We begin by presenting evidence that, unconditionally, plans that pay …