Does using prescription drugs off-label increase disability and medical expenditure? This paper uses a unique dataset to evaluate off-label vs. on-label drug use in the US non-institutionalized population. Patients using drugs off-label have on average $515 higher medical expenditure and...

Cost‐control interventions that target physicians' clinical discretion are common in healthcare, but evidence on their efficacy is scarce; in particular for "soft" policies when liability is unlikely to be enforced by the regulator. We study the effectiveness of preferred drug policies (minimum...

In dynamic markets, organizations have to be ambidextrous to adapt to constant change. Simultaneously, organizations are increasingly required to adopt quality management accreditation. Standardization through accreditation bares the risk of limiting an organization's dynamic capabilities. In...

We investigated the role of public funding in cardiovascular device innovation across 31 countries in Europe. We rely on the knowledge production function (KPF) framework that establishes the knowledge output of a region as a function of innovatory effort and other characteristics of that...