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    • Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology 

      Böckerman, Petri; Kortelainen, Mika; Laine, Liisa T.; Nurminen, Mikko; Saxell, Tanja
      VATT Working Papers : 117 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 04.04.2019)
      We exploit a large-scale natural experiment - the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland - to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use ...

    • Improving Performance Through Allocation and Competition: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform 

      Kortelainen, Mika; Laine, Liisa T.; Lavaste, Konsta; Saxell, Tanja; Siciliani, Luigi
      VATT Working Papers : 156 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 04.10.2023)
      We study the allocative effects of enhancing consumer choice and non-price competition in markets with heterogeneous producers. We use comprehensive administrative data and a difference-in-differences design based on the ...

    • Optimal Patent Policy for Pharmaceutical Industry 

      Izhak, Olena; Saxell, Tanja; Takalo, Tuomas
      VATT Working Papers : 131 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 20.05.2020)
      We show how characterizing optimal patent policy for the pharmaceutical industry only requires information about generic producers’ responses to changes in the effective duration and scope of new drug patents. To estimate ...

    • Prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector 

      Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, Jouko
      FIT Working Paper : 5 (Tampereen yliopisto, 22.12.2022)
      We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which an effective, widely accepted low-cost treatment and alternative, more expensive treatments are available. ...

    • Studying a Sin Tax Scheme with Multiple Reforms - Lessons for Consumption Taxation 

      Kosonen, Tuomas; Jysmä, Sami; Savolainen, Riikka
      VATT Working Papers : 164 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 08.04.2024)
      This paper studies the relationship between substitutability of taxed and nontaxed goods and the price elasticity of demand. We organize the paper through a simple model that yields as a result a highly convex relationship ...

    • The effect of compulsory face mask policies on community mobility in Germany 

      Kovacs, Roxanne; Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne
      The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 4 (Open access) (Wiley, 11.10.2023)
      There is an ongoing debate about face masks being made compulsory in public spaces to contain COVID-19. A key concern is that such policies could undermine efforts to maintain social distancing and reduce mobility. We ...

    • The Effects of Price Regulation on Pharmaceutical Expenditure and Availability 

      Kortelainen, Mika; Markkanen, Jaakko; Siikanen, Markku; Toivanen, Otto
      VATT Working Papers : 157 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 04.10.2023)
      Quasi-experimental evidence on the effectiveness of price regulation policies in curbing pharmaceutical expenditure is scarce. We analyze widely utilized generic substitution and reference price policies using data from ...

    • The Long-Run Effects of Cesarean Sections 

      Costa-Ramón, Ana; Kortelainen, Mika; Rodríguez-González, Ana; Sääksvuori, Lauri
      VATT Working Papers : 125 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 17.10.2019)
      This paper analyzes the long-term effects of potentially avoidable C-sections on children's health. Using Finnish administrative data, we document that physicians perform more unplanned C-sections during their regular ...