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Title : Influence of mandatory generic substitution on pharmaceutical sales

A Successful Strategy for Improving the Influenza Immunization Rates of Health Care Workers without a Mandatory Policy.

Correspondence to Humberto Guanche Garcell, MD, The Cuban Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Dukham, 27555 Qatar Tel: +974-7021-8464 E-mail: guanche@ infomed.sld.cu Received: Apr 16, 2015 Accepted: May 23, 2015 Cite this article as: Guanche Garcell H, Villanueva Arias A, Guilarte García E, et al. A successful strategy for improving the influenza immunization rates of health care workers witho...

The Effectiveness of State Legislation in Mitigating Moral Hazard: Evidence from Automobile Insurance*

Insurance fraud, which adds an estimated $85 billion per year to the total insurance bill in the United States, is an extremely serious problem for consumers, regulators, and insurance companies. This paper analyzes the effects of state legislation and market conditions on automobile insurance fraud from 1988 to 1999, a period exhibiting a substantial increase in the enactment of antifraud legi...

Influence of mandatory generic substitution on pharmaceutical sales patterns: a national study over five years

BACKGROUND Mandatory generic substitution was introduced in Sweden in October 2002 in order to try to curb escalating pharmaceutical expenditure. The aim of this study was to investigate how sales patterns for substitutable and non-substitutable pharmaceuticals have developed since the introduction of mandatory generic substitution; furthermore, to compare sales patterns in different groups of ...

Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Assistance Program: The New Deal for Young People in the UK

This paper exploits the differential timing of the introduction of a labor market program across areas as well as agerelated eligibility rules to identify the treatment effect of a targeted active labor market program. We are especially concerned about substitution and equilibrium wage effects. The program studied is the “New Deal for the Young Unemployed” in the UK and uses an administrative p...