The new creations and innovations which are formulated in the minds of the human minds are recognized as a mode of an intangible property which, people can enjoy a specific set of rights over them. These are called 'intellectual property' as it is attached with the intellect of the people.There...

We use data across states to examine the relation between HMO enrollment and medical spending. We find that increased managed care enrollment significantly reduces hospital cost growth. While some of this effect is offset by increased spending on physicians, we generally find a significant...

This paper sets up a quasi-experiment to estimate the impact of medical innovations on the economic outcomes for the individual and their family based on the rich administrative data for Sweden covering 1 million persons. I find that an increase in medical innovations by one standard deviation...