Does drug price-regulation affect healthcare expenditures?

Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures ?

Does Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Affect the Adoption of Generic Competition? Evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008

Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to investigate how price regulations in the OECD affect the adoption of generic competition following the...

Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures? Empirical Evidence from Switzerland.

This paper analyzes whether the opportunity for physicians to dispense drugs increases healthcare expenditures. We study the case of Switzerland, where dispensing physicians face financial incentives to overprescribe and sell more expensive pharmaceuticals. Using comprehensive physician-level data, we exploit the regional variation in the dispensing regime to estimate causal effects. The empiri...

How does water price affect irrigation technology adoption?

fairly consistent with depth from the surface to the water table. There is no evidence from our data that denitrification is a significant process at any of the sites, with the possible exception of the Salinas Valley septic tank site. Thus, except for one site in the eight main test sites, the results demonstrate that measuring the 615N value immediately below the NO3 source can be an accurate...

Does the Food Stamp Program Affect Food Security Status and the Composition of Food Expenditures?

This article considers interaction among participation in the Food Stamp Program (FSP), food security status, and the composition of food expenditures. A quadratic almost ideal demand system with a bootstrapping two-step method of estimation is applied to data from the Current Population Survey–Food Security Supplement data and used to estimate the model and account for endogeneity between the ...