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Valuing rural hospitals - the Australian experience
Rural and Remote Health, 2023 Introduction: Over many years in Australia, public hospitals were funded on historical grounds with about 40% of running costs provided by the national government.
Alan Chater, Samuel Webster
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Health Services Insights, 2023 In a bid to improve quality of care, numerous countries have incorporated rewards and penalties into the funding and pricing of hospital services. This paper outlines recent advances in Australia to incorporate financial penalties for hospital acquired ...
Samuel B. G. Webster +4 more
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Price Low and then Price High or Price High and then Price Low? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 The paper presents an experiment testing the hypothesis that, if consumers do not have well defined preferences and as a result their valuation of a new product is shaped by past experiences of prices, it may be more profitable for firms to follow a strategy of pricing high and then lower.
Zizzo, Daniel John, Sitzia, Stefania
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EJC Supplements, 2021 Aim: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE versus relevant comparators for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumours located in the gastrointestinal tract (GI-NETs) and the pancreas (P-NETs).
Matthew Glover +3 more
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Price Points and Price Dynamics [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 Abstract A standard model of price-setting is extended to include an important role for price points as well as sticky information. It makes empirically reasonable predictions about the frequency of price adjustments, the sizes of price increases and decreases, the shape of the hazard function, the fraction of price changes that are price increases ...
Hahn, Volker, Marencak, Michal
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Diagnostics, 2023 Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, which is increased by the irrational use of antibiotics, for example, in the treatment of respiratory tract infections in community care.
Caroline Steigenberger +2 more
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Economic Inquiry, 2019 We investigate the practice of framing a price as a discount from an earlier price, with information such as “was $200, now $100.” We discuss two reasons why a discounted price—rather than a merely low price—can make a consumer more willing to purchase.
Armstrong, Mark, Chen, Yongmin
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Public spending on orphan medicines: a review of the literature
Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2020 Background and objective Little is known about how much public payers spend on orphan medicines. This study aimed at identifying information on orphan medicine expenditure incurred by public payers that was published in literature globally and at ...
Margit Gombocz, Sabine Vogler
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Border prices and retail prices [PDF]
Journal of International Economics, 2009 We analyze retail prices and at-the-dock (import) prices of specific items in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) CPI and IPP databases, using both databases simultaneously to identify items that are identical in description at the dock and when sold at retail.
David W. Berger +3 more
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Price Points and Price Rigidity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 We study the link between price points and price rigidity using two data sets: weekly scanner data and Internet data. We find that “9” is the most frequent ending for the penny, dime, dollar, and ten-dollar digits; the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at “9”; 9-ending prices are less likely to change than non-9-ending ...
Levy, Daniel +4 more
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