Medicare has recently experienced the largest expansion of benefits since its in- ception: the inclusion of prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The policy debate has mainly focused on estimating the cost of implementing the...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. April 2010. Major: Economics. Advisor: Thomas J. Holmes. 1 computer file (PDF); xi, 167 pages, appendices A-C. Ill. (some col.)

We analyze the association that pharmaceutical innovation had with premature mortality from all diseases in Switzerland during the period 1996-2018, and its association with hospital utilization for all diseases in Switzerland during the period 2002-2019. The analysis is performed by...