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in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in physicians' adherence to hospital choices. The spillover effects create cost …
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in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in the physicians' adherence to hospital choices. Our results suggest that …
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I evaluate how the probability of substitution of a prescribed drug in a pharmacy depends on the pharmacists' profits and patients' out of pocket costs. I use Finnish population-wide data covering all prescriptions of three popular antidepressants. I find that one euro increase in the total...
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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 … infrequently adopted. Doctors respond to markup differentials between the two versions, indicating another agency problem. However …
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Markets require informed participants to function efficiently. This paper examines the impact of providing targeted information directly to patients on their purchasing-decisions regarding pharmaceutical drugs. We analyze the effect of informational letters sent by a Swiss health insurer to...
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