“经济学论坛”是由北京大学经济学院经济学系主办的专业学术性论坛。论坛致力于打造一个经济学专业人士进行交流与对话的平台,对当前及未来的经济理论、研究方法和现实热点问题展开广泛、深入、全面、开放的探讨。论坛每月举办一次,由主题演讲、专业评论和自由讨论构成。论坛邀经济学各领域素有研究的知名学者或研究取得积极进展的中青年学者发表主题演讲,并围绕相关问题展开讨论。本期论坛信息如下:
题目:Financial Incentives and Physician Prescribing Behavior—Evidence from the Regulatory Change of Healthcare Price Structure in China
报告人:付明卫,中国社科院经济研究所副研究员
付明卫,中国社科院经济研究所副研究员,北京大学经济学博士,美国宾州州立大学访问学者,从事健康经济学和新政治经济学方面的研究,在《经济研究》、《世界经济》和《金融研究》等权威刊物上发表多篇论文。
时 间:2017年5月19日(周五)12点30分至13点50分
地 点:经济学院302会议室
主持人:叶静怡 教授
点评人:石菊 助理教授
摘要:This paper empirically investigates how financial incentives affect physician prescribing behavior in an environment that physicians both prescribe and dispense medicine. Our identification strategy employs an exogenous policy shock which abolishes the 15% markup on drug sales and raises the visit fee by a large margin at the same time. Using a regression discontinuity design based on patient-visit-level data, we find that the policy shock leads to an 6.7% decrease in total expenditure per visit on average. Not only the abolishment of markup drives the decline in total expenditure, but also that the rise in the visit fee dampens physicians` over-pre1111ion. Exactly, the variety of medicine prescribed by physician reduces by 0.15, and spending on examination and check decreases on the order of 13.3%. There exists heterogeneity in the effect of the shock among diseases.
北京大学经济学院经济学系
2016年5月14日