"Substandard and counterfeit drugs represent a global public health crisis. However, there is little economic analysis of the market given the paucity of data. Focusing on 8 drug types on the WHO-approved medicine list, we constructed an original dataset of 899 drug samples from 17 low- and...

This book is the revised version of a doctoral thesis written at the Graduiertenkolleg Law and Economics at Hamburg University. It addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for tropical diseases and the lack of access to affordable medicines in poor countries. Tropical...

Der Sammelband enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops über Rationalisierungsreserven im deutschen Gesundheitswesen, insbesondere in dem Bereich der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV). Das Themenspektrum umfasst Effizienzpotentiale im stationären Bereich,...