Publications (Filter: healthcare)
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Innovation and Less Harmful Alternatives to Tobacco: The Case of Nicotine Pouches Regulation
By: Guest AuthorBy Christofer Fjellner, a former Member of the European Parliament For some years now, tobacco-free nicotine pouches – a tobacco-free version of...
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The Compounding Effect of Tariffs on Medicines: Estimating the Real Cost of Emerging Markets’ Protectionism
By: Matthias BauerEven low import tariff rates have a significant compounding effect on the final retail price of medicines, which in turn impacts on affordability....
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Europe’s Obesity Challenge
By: Fredrik ErixonEurope is confronted by an obesity challenge. Rates of obesity have climbed fast over the past decades and estimates suggest that obesity rates will...
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Innovation and the Economics of Healthcare: The Case of Blood Cancer
By: Fredrik ErixonWhile innovation is central for the quality of healthcare and improving health outcomes, it is also a source of increasing costs for governments....
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The Health of Nations: A Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agenda for Better Healthcare
Today, increases in the demand for healthcare are driving European governments to look for ways to control growth in healthcare expenditures and at...
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Investing in Obesity Treatment to Deliver Significant Healthcare Savings: Estimating the Healthcare Costs of Obesity and the Benefits of Treatment
Tags: healthcareBy: Fredrik ErixonObesity rates in Europe have been growing at an accelerated speed in the past two decades. In the European Union, between 36.9% and 56.7% of all...
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PRICE TAGGING THE PRICELESS: International reference pricing for medicines in theory and practice
International reference pricing (IRP) has become a popular policy instrument in Europe as government seeks to curb healthcare costs and notably...
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What is Driving the Rise in Health Care Expenditures? An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Cost Disease
Tags: healthcareThe last 40 years have seen a rapid increase of government expenditures on public welfare arrangements. Increasing healthcare expenditures form a...
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A Tale of Three Markets: How Government Policy Creates Winners and Losers in the Philippine Health Sector
For more than half a century the Philippines has been a leading exporter of human capital in the healthcare sector. This paper estimates that...
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Assessing International Trade in Healthcare Services
By: Lior HermanMany stories and anecdotal evidence document doctors and patients travelling across the globe to give and receive medical and cosmetic surgeries,...
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The Health of Nations: Conceptualizing Approaches to Trade in Health Care
By: Fredrik ErixonThe forces of the Wealth of nations are not at work for the Health of nations. Economic and trade integration have progressed over the last fifty...