Are Medical Prices Declining? Evidence from Heart Attack Treatments
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- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 113 (4) , 991-1024
Abstract
We address long-standing problems in measuring medical inflation by estimating two types of price indices. The first, a Service Price Index, prices sKeywords
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