In the second chapter, I study the impact of market size on the development of novel
surgeries, an important domain of medical innovation where intellectual property rights …

Medical innovations have meaningfully increased the quality and quantity of life around the
globe. The pace of innovation is determined, in part, by the economic and regulatory …

Technological innovation in medical services can improve health, but its ability to reach
patients often depends on price signals for downstream providers, which can also be …

While the economic environment has important effects on medical practice, we focus here
on a single part of the picture: the interaction between payment and the diffusion of surgical …

This dissertation consists of three chapters. In chapter 1, we studied the impact of
competition on incremental innovation in the pharmaceutical context. Research and …

Prior work argues that the “market for ideas” supports an open system of innovation,
allowing for efficient development of technology across firms. Although this literature has …

ABSTRACT I study the channels through which health insurance influences medical
innovation. Following Medicare and Medicaid's passage, I find that US-based medical …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to examine the diffusion of a new surgical procedure with
lower per-case cost and how its diffusion path is affected by the simultaneous introduction of …

Healthcare is projected to soon become the industry with the largest amount of spending on
research and development in the world. While competition has the potential to catalyze the …

Although many modern conceptsand principles of innovation have been defined according
to the business perspective, the field of surgery, built on a unique culture of continuous …