Demand for health insurance

TG McGuire - Handbook of health economics, 2011 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews topics related to the demand for health insurance, including the
question of how choice of health insurance should be structured for consumers. After the first …

The industrial organization of health-care markets

M Gaynor, K Ho, RJ Town - Journal of Economic Literature, 2015 - aeaweb.org
The US health-care sector is large and growing—health-care spending in 2011 amounted to
$2.7 trillion and 18 percent of GDP. Approximately half of health-care output is allocated via …

Innovation crisis in the pharmaceutical industry? A survey

U Laermann-Nguyen, M Backfisch - SN Business & Economics, 2021 - Springer
In the literature, it is widely discussed whether the pharmaceutical industry is going through
an innovation crisis. Unfortunately, no comprehensive review exists to date that outlines the …

Economics of the pharmaceutical industry

DN Lakdawalla - Journal of Economic Literature, 2018 - aeaweb.org
The pharmaceutical industry accounts for a substantial chunk of the US economy's research
and development investments, which have resulted in significant medical breakthroughs. At …

Research and the approval process: The organization of persuasion

E Henry, M Ottaviani - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
An informer sequentially collects and disseminates information through costly research to
persuade an evaluator to approve an activity. Payoffs and control rights are split between …

Ask your doctor? Direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals

M Sinkinson, A Starc - The Review of Economic Studies, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We measure the impact of direct-to-consumer television advertising (DTCA) by drug
manufacturers. Our identification strategy exploits shocks to local advertising markets …

The more we die, the more we sell? a simple test of the home-market effect

A Costinot, D Donaldson, M Kyle… - The quarterly journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by
Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home …

A comparison of reimbursement recommendations by European HTA agencies: is there opportunity for further alignment?

N Allen, L Liberti, SR Walker, S Salek - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: In Europe and beyond, the rising costs of healthcare and limited healthcare
resources have resulted in the implementation of health technology assessment (HTA) to …

Drug firms' payments and physicians' prescribing behavior in Medicare Part D

C Carey, EMJ Lieber, S Miller - Journal of Public Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
In a pervasive but controversial practice, drug firms frequently make monetary or in-kind
payments to physicians in the course of promoting prescription drugs. We use a federal …

The industrial organization of health care markets

B Handel, K Ho - Handbook of industrial organization, 2021 - Elsevier
In this chapter we outline the tools that have been developed to model and analyze
competition and regulation in health care markets, and describe particular papers that apply …