observed medical technologies by country. Our second set of regressions proxy technology using a spatial process. The paper … expectancy are significant and point to the existence of interdependence across countries in technology adoption. Furthermore …

observed medical technologies by country. Our second set of regressions proxy technology using a spatial process. The paper … expectancy are significant and point to the existence of interdependence across countries in technology adoption. Furthermore …

logistic and OLS regressions to measure the effect of star physicians and star hospitals on the diffusion of an innovation in … physician level. Compared to hospitals with no star physicians (11% adoption rate), those with star physicians on staff show a … physician level, the empirical results indicate that star physicians exert positive asymmetric influence on the adoption and …

medical "technology"-is responsible for the majority of growth in medical expenditure. And yet, the principle means of … understanding medical technology is through the use of total factor productivity, which, despite giving reasonable estimates of the … magnitude of the effects, is not a theory of technology, leaving policymakers without effective tools for prediction. This paper …