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Optimal Patent Policy for Pharmaceutical Industry
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-05-20)
We show how characterizing optimal patent policy for the pharmaceutical industry only requires information about generic producers’ responses to changes in the effective duration and scope of new drug patents. To estimate ...
Regional variation in potentially inappropriate medicine use in older adults. - A national register-based cross-sectional study on economic, health system-related and patient-related characteristics
(Elsevier, 2020)
Background: Potentially inappropriate medicines (PIM), i.e. medicines in which the potential harms may outweigh the benefits, use may be associated with e.g. hospitalization, outpatient visits and health care costs. As ...
Physician Prices and Competition: Evidence from Acquisitions in the Private Health Care Sector
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-04-30)
We consider the effects of mergers and acquisitions for private physicians, who compete for patients on price. To estimate the effects, we use nationwide administrative data on private physicians and the organization of ...
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-10-26)
Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the ...
The Long-Run Effects of Cesarean Sections
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of potentially avoidable cesarean sections on children’s health. Using Finnish administrative data, we document that physicians perform more unplanned C-sections during their regular ...
The effects of using participatory working time scheduling software on sickness absence: A difference-in-differences study
(Elsevier, 2020)
Background
Participatory working time scheduling is a collaborative approach to scheduling shift work. As a potential way of improving work time control, it may provide a means to reducing sickness absence in shift work. ...