in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in the physicians' adherence to hospital choices. Our results suggest that …

in hospital treatment and heterogeneity in physicians' adherence to hospital choices. The spillover effects create cost …

I examine the importance of physicians in the process by which patients receive either trade-name or generic drugs …. Using a dataset on physicians, their patients, and the multisource drugs prescribed, I find that almost all physicians … prescribe both types of drugs to their patients, but some physicians are more likely to prescribe generic drugs while other …

pharmaceuticals. I examine micro-panel data from Japan, where physicians can legally make profits by prescribing and dispensing drugs …I examine physician agency in healthcare services in the context of the choice between brand-name and generic …. The results indicate that physicians often fail to internalize patient costs, explaining why cheaper generics are …

informational letters sent by a Swiss health insurer to clients who had recently purchased a brand-name drug, informing them of … fourfold rise in the substitution likelihood among previous brand-name drug buyers. Furthermore, the effect does not …

-patent pharmaceuticals. We present a theoretical model with price-sensitive and loyal consumers that shows that a decrease in the reference …

drugs. The empirical results show that a larger price difference between brand-name and generic drugs increases physicians …Physicians’ generic pharmaceutical adoption involves not only patients’ and insurance payers’ cost, but also their own … interests. This study examines this double agency problem for physicians by using Taiwanese data because two of its …

to buy prescription drugs from a promoted brand name. I exploit specific characteristics of market regulation in Germany …

We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies' incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we … construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to purchase a generic … producer and retail level. In the empirical analysis, we find a strong relationship between the margins of brand-names and …