What Drives Health Care Expenditure? Baumol's Model of "Unbalanced Growth" Revisited
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- Hartwig, Jochen, 2008. "What drives health care expenditure?--Baumol's model of 'unbalanced growth' revisited," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(3), pages 603-623, May.
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Rising health care expenditure; 'Unbalanced growth'; OECD panel JEL classifications;JEL classification:
- C12 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Hypothesis Testing: General
- C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2006-08-05 (All new papers)
- NEP-HEA-2006-08-05 (Health Economics)
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