Purpose: This study investigates the implementation of the short selling ban policy imposed by the Italian stock exchange on healthcare stock prices, as a tool to mitigate COVID-19 price effects. Important contributions are in terms of assessing (i) the effect of the temporary short selling ban...

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect prescriptions and drug costs. We estimate heterogeneous treatment effects by combining physician-level data on antidiabetic prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine...

Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a tight connection between inequitable access to health, welfare services, and adverse outcomes from the pandemic. Others have...

The COVID-19 pandemic increased the rate of mental health disorders, as well as demand for mental health services. It remains unclear, however, the extent to which the pandemic impacted access to mental health services. Using data from an audit field experiment, we examine the impact of COVID-19...

Background: This study seeks to measure the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare jobs in Ohio. We examine whether healthcare sector workers were similarly affected compared to workers in other industries in Ohio and if there were any significant differences in job categories within the healthcare...