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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016

Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...

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Should product-specific advertisement be regulated in pharmaceutical markets?

Ishida, Junichiro; Takahara, Tsuyoshi - 2022

This paper examines the optimal content regulation of DTCA by comparing two forms of DTCA-product-specific and category …-specific-and identifies a key tradeoff which underlies this policy debate. Our analysis suggests that the optimal form of DTCA depends … crucially on the cost effectiveness of DTCA and the market-size distortion induced by DTCA. When the cost of advertisement is …

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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016

Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show that there are strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and the outpatient sector using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628426

Direct to consumer advertising in pharmaceutical markets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Kuhn, Michael - 2005

We study effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in the prescription drug market. There are two pharmaceutical … firms providing horizontally differentiated (branded) drugs. Patients differ in their susceptibility to the drugs. If DTCA …), creating a captive and a selective segment of physicians. First, we show that detailing, DTCA and price (if not regulated) are …

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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes: The case of over-the-counter weight loss products

Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...

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Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis

Masłowski, Dariusz; Kulińska, Ewa; Salwin, Mariusz; … - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 58 (2022) 2, pp. 192-217

During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were introduced at a very rapid pace, did not allow the standardization of the work of the health service. Therefore, the assessment of the...

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Impact of the introduction of the AMNOG law on launch delays of new drugs in Germany: a comment

Gandjour, Afschin - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 24 (2023) 7, pp. 1243-1244

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Cut Off from New Competition: Threat of Entry and Quality of Primary Care

Brüll, Eduard; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024

We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile novel...

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The Cost of Restricting Abortion Access

Slusky, David - In: Intereconomics 57 (2022) 3, pp. 199-200

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Behavioral Responses to Supply-Side Drug Policy During the Opioid Epidemic

Balestra, Simone; Liebert, Helge; Maestas, Nicole; … - 2022

We investigate behavioral responses to a staggered disruption in the supply of prescription opioids across U.S. states: the introduction of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Using administrative datasets, we find PDMPs curtail the proliferation of prescription opioids....

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