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consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its …
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consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its … ; Innovation ; Income Redistribution …
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This study examines the impact of competition on hospital quality. Our panel covers all Dutch hospitals in the period 2004–2008, in which the transparency of hospital quality information increased substantially. The paper contributes to the existing literature by including both outcome and...
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This paper justifies unequal health care quality in a model with two regions and patients differentiated by location and quality perception. Efficient distribution with unequal healthcare quality arises when there are low travel and/or quality provision costs. If costs are sufficiently low, then...
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approved medicines to patients. We introduce a regulatory approach we term “Pricing for Medicine Innovation” (PMI), which … with this pricing approach. Firstly, in an innovation system where a company’s sales revenue is the source of its finance … for further drug development, price caps may deprive a firm of the means to invest in innovation. Secondly, even with …
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limits of the available resources. In this opinion paper, innovation aspects in medicine, healthcare, and health policy …
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Most economic analyses of path creation and dependence are stories about how standards create network externalities - and thus potential "lock-in" - in technological systems like personal computers or high-definition television. This paper examines similar questions of path creation and...
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Efforts to understand the relationship between market structure and the quality of health services are complicated by the non-random character of patients' choices of where to receive care. To address this problem, I construct an empirical model of health outcomes for dialysis patients that...
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A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers to compete with public incumbents. However, there remains a concern that not all consumers are able to benefit equally from wider choice. We consider the case of publicly...
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