This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect … prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine learning methods. We find that payments cause physicians to prescribe … more brand drugs, resulting in a cost increase of $30 per dollar received. Responses differ widely across physicians, and …

national firm upstream and improved or distributed by local firms downstream. In this context, heightened products liability … may have unintended consequences for consumer safety. Conventional wisdom holds that an increase in tort liability on the … worse, if liability is shared between upstream and downstream firms, higher upstream liability may decrease the liability of …

national firm upstream and improved or distributed by local firms downstream. In this context, heightened products liability … may have unintended consequences for consumer safety. Conventional wisdom holds that an increase in tort liability on the … worse, if liability is shared between upstream and downstream firms, higher upstream liability may decrease the liability of …

from the signatories of an open letter in which 199 Austrian physicians expressed their skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines …

from the signatories of an open letter in which 199 Austrian physicians expressed their skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines …

Many countries with national health care providers and health insurances regulate the market for pharmaceuticals to … (no. of firms) suggests a significant but small negative correlation with prices. -- pharmaceuticals ; prices ; co …