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Medicare and the rise of American medical patenting : the economics of user-driven innovation

Clemens, Jeffrey; Olsen, Morten - 2021

Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model nests existing theories of laboratory research and...

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Coming of age : the hidden health costs of legal age limits

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2025

Using high-quality Finnish register data and a regression discontinuity approach, we study the health effects of …

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Introducing activity-based payment in the hospital industry : evidence from French data

Choné, Philippe; Evain, Franck; Wilner, Lionel; … - 2013

Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost reduction. The purpose of this work is to understand how the effect of such reforms depends on the intensity of local competition. We build a nonprice competition model to examine the...

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Physician labor supply, financial incentives, and access to healthcare

Wilner, Lionel; Choné, Philippe - 2025

To empirically assess how physicians respond to financial incentives, we leverage a quasi-natural experiment in France where most GPs' fees are regulated. In 2017, a wide-scale regulatory change caused the price of a visit to increase from €23 to €25. Relying on granular claims data covering...

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Medical innovations and ageing : a health economics perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and … surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health … conceptualization of ageing as an accumulation of health deficits. The paper also discusses the role of medical progress for longevity …

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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

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Coinsurance vs. copayments : reimbursement rules for a monopolistic medical product with competitive health Iinsurers

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2021

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while …

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Nonlinear reimbursement rules for preventive and curative medical care

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2024

some probability individuals are healthy and do not need any therapeutic health care. Otherwise they become ill and the … the health status is determined while curative care is chosen ex post. Insurance benefits depend on preventive and … health status is ex post publicly observable, insurance benefits are flat (lump sum payments) and do not depend on …

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The cost of binge drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2015

We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...

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