A Hard Look at “Soft” Cost‐control Measures in Healthcare Organizations: Evidence from Preferred Drug Policies in Germany
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- Daniel Avdic & Katharina E. Blankart, 2021. "A hard look at soft cost-control measures in healthcare organizations: Evidence from preferred drug policies in Germany," Papers 2021-07, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University.
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Keywords
Cost-control; Healthcare; Practice Style; Difference-in-differences;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2021-11-22 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-IAS-2021-11-22 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2021-11-22 (Law and Economics)
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