I consider the problem of evaluating the effect of a health care reform on the demand for doctor visits when the effect …

We evaluate the demand for long term care (LTC) insurance prospects in a stated preference context, by means of the … techniques have not been used yet for studying the demand for LTC services. In this paper these methods are first of all used in …

This paper investigates the role of randomized controlled clinical trials in the demand for cancer drugs. The unique … setting of off-label prescribing, where it is possible to observe demand for a drug for a particular cancer both before and … Medicare claims data is constructed to estimate the effect of the release of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on demand for …

in public hospitals, to study physician-induced demand for medical care. We develop a theoretical model that robustly … predicts that the drug price zero markup policy (ZMP) will lead to a reduction in the demand for drugs but an increase in the … demand for non-drug services, only when the demands for drugs and non-drug services are at least partially physician induced …

in public hospitals, to study physician-induced demand for medical care. We develop a theoretical model that robustly … predicts that the drug price zero markup policy (ZMP) will lead to a reduction in the demand for drugs but an increase in the … demand for non-drug services, only when the demands for drugs and non-drug services are at least partially physician induced …

postintroduction period and then returned to previous levels. This was partially due to behavioral responses of patients and physicians …