Experts in the budgetary field see participatory budgeting as an innovative solution to promote inclusive democracy, and further modernisation and accountability in the public sector. Participatory budgeting is believed to allow civil society and public administrators to jointly determine...

All stakeholders involved in the development, licencing, and market access of health care technologies use stage-specific valuation matched that integrates risks and outcomes to inform their decision making. A stage-specific valuation method, based on defining future cash flows for a product...

This paper is primarily concerned with estimating an upper bound for the contribution of technological progress on health care costs as motivated by the recent debate on U.S. health care reform. We critically address whether technology is at least 50% of the increase in health care costs as...