This paper estimates the impact of gifts - monetary or in-kind payments - from pharmaceutical firms on physicians … Part D, we find that payments cause physicians to prescribe more brand drugs. On average, for every dollar spent, payments … heterogeneity in responses to payments across physicians. Differences are predominantly explained by the insurance coverage of …

in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in the physicians' adherence to hospital choices. Our results suggest that …

pharmaceuticals. I examine micro-panel data from Japan, where physicians can legally make profits by prescribing and dispensing drugs …. The results indicate that physicians often fail to internalize patient costs, explaining why cheaper generics are …

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 …

manufacturers and physicians are uncertain about drug qualities. Our model assumes (i) a representative opinion leader is … (ii) manufacturers use detailing as a means to build/maintain the measure of physicians who are informed of the current … detailing to the current information sets and the measures of well-informed physicians. To illustrate the empirical implications …

We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …

health care resources to their best use. -- Medicare ; prescription drugs ; health insurance demand …