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Antibiotic consumption and the role of dispensing physicians

Filippini, Massimo ; Heimsch, Fabian ; Masiero, Giuliano

In: Regional Science and urban economics, 2014, vol. 49, p. 242-251

The benefits of separating drug prescribing and dispensing are still unclear, in particular when drug consumption is characterized by important spillovers. We investigate the role of dispensing physicians in the consumption of antibiotics characterized by two opposite external effects: infection prevention and control, and bacterial resistance. We model the interaction between competing...