READING LIST: TOPICS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS FALL 2007 (preliminary)
MATHEMATICS and ECONOMICS
Knut Sydsaeter and Peter Hammond, Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis (second edition), Prentice Hall: Chapter 1 – 5; 7.7; 8; 11.7-8; 10; 11; 12.5-7 ; 14.
WEAKNESS OF WILL
Akerlof, George A., 1991, Procrastination and Obedience, The American Economic Review 81, 1-18. Subscription
Becker, Gary S., and Kevin M. Murphy, 1988, A Theory of Rational Addiction, Journal of Political Economy 96, 675-700. Subscription
O'Donoghue, Ted, and Matthew Rabin, 1999, Doing it now or later, The American Economic Review 89, 103-124. Subscription
O'Donoghue, Ted, and Matthew Rabin, 2006, Optimal Sin Taxes, Journal of Public Economics 90, 1825-1849. Subscription
Rubinstein, Ariel, 2003, "Economics and Psychology"? The Case of Hyperbolic Discounting, International Economic Review 44, 1207-1216. Subscription
MEDICAL ERRORS
Brennan T.A., L.L. Leape., Laird, N.M. et al., ; (1991) Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients: results from the Harvard Medical Practice study I, New England Journal of Medicine, 324 , 370-376. Subscription
Brennan T.A., L.L. Leape., Laird, N.M. et al., ; (1991) The nature of adverse events in hospitalized patients. Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II, New England Journal of Medicine, 324 , 377-384.
Studdert, D.M., Mello M.M. and Brennan T.A. (2004) Medical malpractice, New England Journal of Medicine Volume 350: 283-292. Subscription
Fenn, P., A. Gray and N. Rickman.,; (2004) The economics of clinical negligence reform in England, The Economic Journal 114 (June): F272-F292. Subscription
Danzon, P.M., (1991) Liability for medical malpractice, Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 3: pp.51-69. Subscription
Towse A. and Danzon, P. (1998) Medical negligence and the NHS: an economic analysis, Health Economics Vol. 8. pp. 93-101. Subscription
Grepperud, S. (2007) Optimal prevention when informal penalties matter: the case of medical errors. HERO working paper 2007: 5. Online
Grepperud, S. (2005), Medical errors: getting the incentives right. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 5, 307-326 Subscription
COMPETITION IN HEALTH CARE (uncomplete)
Frank, R.H. (2003) Microeconomics and behaviour. International edition (5-th). McGraw Hill. Chapter 13. 455-476.
Arrow KJ (1963) Uncertainty and welfare economics of medical care, American Economic Review 53, 941-973. Subscription
Gaynor, M (2006) "What do we know about competition and quality in health care markets", Carnegie Mellon University, 2006-6. Online
Brekke KR, Siciliani L, Straume OR (2007) "Competition and waiting times in hospital markets'. CEPR Discussion Papers 6285, 2007. Online
Scherer F M (2000) The pharmaceutical industry, Chapter 25 in A J Culyer and J P Newhouse (eds) Handbook of Health Economics, vol 1B
Danzon PM (1997) Pharmaceutical Price Regulation (Washington DC: The AEI Press), Ch 1-4.
Brekke KR, Konigbauer I, Straume OR. Reference pricing of pharmaceuticals', Journal of Health Economics, 26 (2007), 613-642. Subscription
Brekke KR, Grasdal AL, Holm?s TH (2007) "Regulation and Pricing of Pharmaceuticals: Reference Pricing or Price Cap Regulation?' CESifo working paper 2059 Online
Supplementary reading
Askildsen JE, Brekke KR (2001) Er konkurranse i helsesektoren en god ide?, kapittel 13 i J E Askildsen og K Haug (red): Helse, ?konomi og politikk Utfordringer for det norske helsevesenet, (Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag) (in Norwegian)