Traditional economic analysis has proposed well known remedies to deal with consumption externalities and inefficient … of R&D and consumption externalities is central to health care industries around the world generally, and for the … altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies such as Medicaid in the US. We stress that standard remedies to the two …

Traditional economic analysis has proposed well known remedies to deal with consumption externalities and inefficient … of Ramp;D and consumption externalities is central to health care industries around the world generally, and for the … altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies such as Medicaid in the US. We stress that standard remedies to the two …

altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this … evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare … prefers more or less horizontal differentiation is in general ambiguous and depends on the level of altruism. The more …

rearing. Growth dynamics depend in important ways on the externalities associated with knowledge and health. Depending on the … strength of these externalities, increases in government spending on education or health (financed by a cut in unproductive …