The paper studies the incentive for providers to invest in new health care technologies under alternative payment … study a specific technology. -- Health Care ; Investments …

Quantity rationing is widely used by the traditional literature on public health care expenditure determination as a … means to justify the coexistence of the private health care sector. However, this artefact is not suitable for a wide range … of health care services that have an "all or nothing" characteristic. In this paper, we use another kind of rationing …

People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of … preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing … which an agent's decision to engage in health risk denial balances the psychological benefits of reduced anxiety with the …

The main objective of this paper is to analyze trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous … studies, we not only focus on medicines, but on a large set of products that enter the public health space and can be … identified in the common trade classification. The first contribution is thus to construct three groups of health products based …

This Article examines state constitutions and health care rights. Notably, close to a third of states' constitutions … recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article …

health industry when providers are altruistic. Providers' behavioral rule is governed by a desire to maximize a weighted sum … of profit and consumers' health benefit. When providers exert costly efforts to enhance quality and reduce cost, the …

We study the role of health care within a continuous time economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous … mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …

treatment for which patients have to pay out of pocket. Private treatment is superior in terms of health outcomes but more … private care if and only if waiting costs are sufficiently high. A second-best allocation arises when the health authority … weight the health authority attaches to physician profits a ban of dual practice may improve on the second-best allocation …

New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this … evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare … altruistic healthcare providers are, the more likely it is that the social planner prefers greater horizontal differentiation to …