This dataset provides internationally comparable data on current health expenditure (i.e. final consumption expenditure on health care goods and services) by health care functions, providers and financing schemes.

This dataset provides internationally comparable data on current health expenditure (i.e. final consumption expenditure on health care goods and services) by health care functions, providers and financing schemes.

We provide an equilibrium based asset pricing framework to investigate the patterns in health care finance in 30 OECD countries. Using purchasing power parity adjusted data we find that the sample of countries together as a whole does not exhibit a pattern of convergence. However, there is some...