- Docente: Vincenzo Denicolò
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/03
- Language: English
- Moduli: Vincenzo Denicolò (Modulo 1) Daniela Iorio (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Economics and Management (cod. 8880)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Economics and Management (cod. 8880)
Learning outcomes
This course focuses on the economic and legal aspects of healthcare insurance markets mainly in developed countries. At the end of the course the student understands the fundamental economic and legal arguments for regulatory intervention in healthcare financing and insurance markets. The course also provides students with case-studies regarding the practice of health insurance in various European countries and the US. Teaching combines conceptual and theoretical considerations with applied country-based cases. At the end of the course, the student is expected to reach a detailed knowledge about: 1) the main economic and legal rationales lying behind healthcare financing and insurance markets; 2) the role, limitations and potential solutions of regulatory intervention in healthcare (e.g. including aged and long term care insurance) markets; 3) European countries and US health insurance design and regulatory frameworks.
Course contents
The economics of intellectual property
The private and social value of new drugs
Patents in the pharmaceutical sector
The regulation of new drugs and the way regulation interacts with patent protection
The regulation of new drug pricing
The exhaustion of patent rights and parallel trade
Readings/Bibliography
S. Scotchmer, Innovation and Incentives, 2004, MIT Press
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
written exam
Teaching tools
Lecture notes will be circulated
Office hours
See the website of Vincenzo Denicolò
See the website of Daniela Iorio