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comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …
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In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...
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We analyze whether the possibility for physicians to dispense drugs increases health care expenditures due to the …
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In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021080
informational letters sent by a Swiss health insurer to clients who had recently purchased a brand-name drug, informing them of …
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We analyze changes in the willingness to substitute from prescribed pharmaceuticals to more affordable generic equivalents in response to the first experience with a substitution. Using Swedish individual-level data of prescribed and dispensed pharmaceuticals, we employ a dynamic event study and...
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This article examines the market power of branded prescription drugs faced with generic competition. Using prescription-level and matched socioeconomic panel data of the entire Swedish population between 2010 and 2016, I provide evidence for the key role of switching costs. A discontinuity...
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-mandatory health insurance markets that control adverse selection and assure adequate access and coverage. The focus of this paper is … regulated private health insurance markets are to be successful in allocating health resources efficiently. We use … the proposition that consumers will make and benefit from good choices in private health insurance markets, and direct …
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The welfare implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have garnered considerable attention and are complicated since the consumer delegates some decision-making authority to the physician, who is exposed to advertising as well. In this paper, I develop and estimate a structural model...
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In a field experiment in Uganda, we find that demand after a free distribution of three health products is lower than …
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