Many countries with national health care providers and health insurances regulate the market for pharmaceuticals to … (no. of firms) suggests a significant but small negative correlation with prices. -- pharmaceuticals ; prices ; co …

This paper studies how gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from drug firms to physicians in the US affect … prescriptions and payments with causal inference and machine learning methods. We find that payments cause physicians to prescribe … more brand drugs, resulting in a cost increase of $30 per dollar received. Responses differ widely across physicians, and …