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Quantifying the broader economic consequences of quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Germany applying a government perspective framework
Kotsopoulos, Nikolaos; Connolly, Mark P.; Remy, Vanessa - In: Health Economics Review 5 (2015) 23, pp. 1-11
study was to evaluate the broader economic consequences associated with HPV vaccination in males and females and to conduct … a lifetime cost-benefit analysis of investing in universal vaccination in Germany from the perspective of government … consequences of HPV vaccination including the fiscal impact for the government. A cohort model was developed simulating the medical …
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Contributing or free-riding? Voluntary participation in a public good economy
Konishi, Hideo; Furusawa, Taiji - In: Theoretical Economics 6 (2011) 2, pp. 219-256
We consider a (pure) public goods provision problem with voluntary participation in a quasi-linear economy. We propose a new hybrid solution concept, the free-riding-proof core (FRP-Core), which endogenously determines a contribution group, public goods provision level, and how to share the...
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On Groves mechanisms for costly inclusion
MacKenzie, Andrew; Trudeau, Christian - In: Theoretical Economics 18 (2023) 3, pp. 1181-1223
We investigate Groves mechanisms for economies where (i) a social outcome specifies a group of winning agents, and (ii) a cost function associates each group with a monetary cost. In particular, we characterize both (i) the class of cost functions for which there are Groves mechanisms such that...
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Patient relevant endpoints in oncology: Current issues in the context of early benefit assessment in Germany
Dabisch, Inna; Dethling, Jürgen; Dintsios, … - In: Health Economics Review 4 (2014) 2, pp. 1-8
The German AMNOG healthcare reform includes a mandatory early-benefit-assessment (EBA) at launch. As per German social code, EBA is based on registration trials and includes evaluation of the patient-relevant effect of the new medicines compared to an appropriate comparator as defined by the...
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Essential notion of the health economic evaluation: Definition
Botchkarev, Alexei - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 2 (2016)
Background: Economic evaluation (EE) is a dynamically advancing knowledge area of health economics. It has been conceived to provide evidence for allocating scarce resources to gain the best value for money. The problem of efficiency of investments becomes even more crucial with advances in...
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Health care service provision in Europe and regional diversity: A stochastic metafrontier approach
Schley, Katharina - In: Health Economics Review 8 (2018) 11, pp. 1-11
In the last decades, demographic change coupled with new and expensive medical innovations have put most health care systems in developed countries under financial pressure. Therefore, ensuring efficient service provision is essential for a sustainable health care system. This paper investigates...
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Überschüsse der Krankenkassen und des Gesundheitsfonds: Abschaffung der Praxisgebühren, Beitragssenkung oder Reservenbildung: Was ist sinnvoll?
Bahr, Daniel; Graalmann, Jürgen; Jürges, Hendrik; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 65 (2012) 23, pp. 3-19
Aktuell weisen die Krankenkassen und der Gesundheitsfonds Überschüsse von über 20 Mrd. Euro auf. Für Daniel Bahr, Bundesminister für Gesundheit, eröffnen diese Überschüsse – neben der Abschaffung der Praxisgebühr – Spielräume für Prämien. Die zentrale Herausforderung an eine...
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Wettbewerbliche Ordnungsdefizite in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung
Henke, Klaus-Dirk; Richter, Wolfram - In: ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 04, pp. 15-21
Klaus-Dirk Henke, TU Berlin und Wolfram Richter, TU Dortmund, identifizieren in ihrem Kommentar gravierende Ordnungsdefizite beim Wettbewerb im deutschen Gesundheitswesen. Sie gehen solchen Defiziten im Bereich der GKV nach und benennen konkrete Mängel, die von der Politik behoben werden sollten.
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An analysis of economic incentives to encourage organ donation: Evidence from Chile
Parada-Contzen, Marcela; Vásquez, Felipe - In: Latin American Economic Review 28 (2019) 1, pp. 1-18
We perform a cost-benefit analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indifferent between donating and not donating a kidney while alive using Chilean data. We find that monetary incentives of...
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Wehr- und Dienstpflicht: Auf ökonomisch tönernen Füßen
Beck, Hanno; Prinz, Aloys - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 4, pp. 247
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