Poland: New economic policy

Drug Policy in Poland.

We presented a general overview of the health care system as well as the pricing and reimbursement environment in Poland. Poland aims to ensure proper access to safe and effective medicines while reducing patients' share in treatment costs. Nevertheless, the co-payment for pharmacotherapy is still high (more than 60%). The key policymaker and regulator in the system is the Ministry of Health, w...

New BMJ policy on economic evaluations

New BMJ policy on economic evaluations.

Editor—We, the NHS Economic Evaluation Database Research Team, agree with Smith that economic evaluations should contain comprehensive reporting of both clinical effectiveness and economic analysis and that the BMJ is right to implement this new policy. How the clinical trial results (which inform the economic evaluation) are obtained is often paramount to the understanding and quality of the e...

Economic Integration in Interwar Poland

In this paper we study the issue of economic integration in Poland between 1924 and 1937 by means of a threshold cointegration analysis of the law of one price. We find that the interwar economy can be regarded as integrated but with obvious restrictions which refer to the existence of relevant transaction costs for arbitrage and differences in the level of prices between cities. Moreover, the ...

The Monetary Policy, Credit Constraint and Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: A Contribution of New Economic Geography

T his paper investigates the effect of monetary policy on the distribution of economic activity and agglomeration economies within a country. The considered channel for this effectiveness is the availability of credit to firms in various regions and the effects on the labor and consumer welfare. For this purpose, data for manufacturing firms located in 30 different provinces in Iran ...