copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services believed to be of low value and overused (sleep studies, endoscopies … insurance claims data, we estimate the change in low value healthcare service utilization among beneficiaries before and after … public and private healthcare policies as V-BID principles are rapidly proliferating in healthcare markets. …

realistic dispersion of income levels with modest barriers to technology adoption. Human capital and physical capital contribute … to income differences both directly (as usual), and indirectly by boosting resources devoted to technology adoption. The … model implies that most of income above subsistence is made possible by international diffusion of knowledge. …

. At a time, existence of extend causal relationships between technology diffusion and general economy performance is … communication technologies (ICTs) adoption and dynamics of economic growth and development in Latin American countries. Preliminary … we consider ICTs diffusion patterns in Latin American countries, approximating the diffusion process by S-shaped curves …

Digitalisation may be viewed as a sequence of supply and technology shocks affecting the economy through productivity … and output, employment and labour markets, competition and market structure. This paper focuses on the effects of …