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Regional consumption of antibiotics : a demand system approach

Filippini, Massimo ; Masiero, Giuliano ; Moschetti, Karine

In: Economic Modelling, 2009, vol. 26, no. 6, p. 1389-1397

Through this paper, we have attempted to model the demand for different classes of antibiotics used for respiratory infections in outpatient care in Switzerland using a spatial version of the linear approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model. This model takes spatial dependency into account by means of spatial lags of antibiotic budget shares. We control for the health status of patients...