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 …

If medical malpractice reform affects the supply of physicians, the effects will be concentrated in specialties facing … high liability exposure. Many doctors are likely to be indifferent regarding reform, because their likelihood of being sued … Malpractice Reform Help States Retain Physicians and Does it Matter?" …