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Price Points and Price Rigidity [PDF]
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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Negative prices in network pricing games
In a Stackelberg network pricing game, a leader sets prices for a given subset of edges so as to maximize profit, after which one or multiple followers choose a shortest path from their source to sink. We study the counter-intuitive phenomenon that the use of negative prices by the leader may in fact increase his profit.
Andrés Cristi, Marc Schröder 0002
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Point-of-care diagnostic tests for community-acquired acute respiratory tract infections (CA-ARTI) can support doctors by improving antibiotic prescribing.
Sabine Vogler, Friederike Windisch
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Background A Task Force from the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) provides recommendations on how to systematically identify and appraise health state utility (HSU) weights for cost-effectiveness analyses.
Jacie T. Cooper +5 more
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Commodity Price Forecasts, Futures Prices, and Pricing Models [PDF]
Even though commodity-pricing models have been successful in fitting the term structure of futures prices and its dynamics, they do not generate accurate true distributions of spot prices. This paper develops a new approach to calibrate these models using not only observations of oil futures prices, but also analysts’ forecasts of oil spot prices.
Gonzalo Cortazar +3 more
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Comparison of Cardiovascular Medicines Prices in Four European Countries
The aim of the current study was to compare pricing methodologies at the manufacturer, wholesale, and retail levels, and to estimate the price differences of AT1-receptor blockers (sartans), Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)—inhibitors, and their fixed-
Zornitsa Mitkova +8 more
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Ramsey prices, average cost prices and price sustainability [PDF]
Abstract We study the relationship between sustainable and average cost prices in the multiproduct case. It is shown that for the case where costs are separable only average cost prices can be sustainable even if demands are interdependent. As for the non-separable cost case the notion of average cost prices is axiomatically defined as an extension ...
Leonard J. Mirman +2 more
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New tariff regulation for natural monopolies: what should it be?
For the last several years, the Russian Federation has been artificially restraining the growth of tariffs for the services of natural monopolies. A simple decision, which is taken hastily a few years ago as a short-term anti-crisis measure, has every ...
I. A. Dolmatov +2 more
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Background Several governments apply the policy of external price referencing (EPR), which considers the prices of a medicine in one or more other countries for the purpose of setting the price in the own country.
Sabine Vogler +2 more
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Towards a more transparent HTA process in Poland: new Polish HTA methodological guidelines
Introduction: Health technology assessment (HTA) in Poland supports reimbursement decisions via the Polish HTA Agency (AOTMiT), whose guidelines were updated in 2016.
Krzysztof Lach +3 more
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