全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Tort Reform and Innovation

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w22712
来源ID	Working Paper 22712
	Tort Reform and Innovation
	Alberto Galasso; Hong Luo
发表日期	2016-10-10
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians' behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We find that, on average, laws that limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated with a significant reduction in medical device patenting and that the effect is predominantly driven by innovators located in the states passing the reforms. Tort laws have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not seem to affect the amount of new technologies of the highest and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w22712
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580386
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Alberto Galasso,Hong Luo. Tort Reform and Innovation. 2016.