Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures?
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- Boris Kaiser, Christian Schmid, 2013. "Does Physician Dispensing Increase Drug Expenditures?," Diskussionsschriften credresearchpaper02, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft - CRED.
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Keywords
Health Care Costs; Drug Expenditures; Physician Dispensing; Supply-induced Demand; Treatment Effects;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2013-07-28 (Health Economics)
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