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Working Papers

2017

1. Making the Grossman Model Stochastic: Investment in Health as a Stochastic Control Problem
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics
2. Why Should Rational Smokers Find it Hard to Quit? Introducing Uncertainty into the Rational Addiction Model
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics

2016

3. How does Insurance affect the Price of Drugs: A Graphical Analysis
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics
4. Is the Rational Addiction model inherently impossible to estimate?
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Is the Rational Addiction model inherently impossible to estimate?, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2017) View citations (9) (2017)
5. On a Possible Problem in the Estimation of Saddle-point Dynamic Economic Models
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics View citations (1)
6. Some Implications of Dynamic Mis-specification for the Arellano-Bond Estimator
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics

2015

7. Changing the Way We Think About Drug Prices: Insights from Economics
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics

2014

8. Theoretical Simulation in Health Economics: An application to Grossman's Model of Investment in Health Capital
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics View citations (5)

2013

9. Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1): Chapter One, Background and Historical Setting
   Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance
10. Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (2): Chapter 2, “The Postulates of the Classical Economics”
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance
11. Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (3): Chapter 3, “The Principle of Effective Demand”
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance
12. Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (4): Chapter 4, "The Choice of Units"; Chapter 5, "Expectations as Determining Output and Employment"
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance
13. Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (5): Chapter 6, The Definition of Income, Saving and Investment; Appendix to Chapter 6, Appendix on User Cost; Chapter 7, The Meaning of Saving and Investment Further Considered
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance
14. Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (6): Chapters 8, 9 and 10: Keynes’ Theory of Consumer Behaviour
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance

2009

15. Quantile Regression Analysis of the Rational Addiction Model: Making unobservable heterogeneity observable
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York

2007

16. The Quantile Regression Approach to Efficiency Measurement: Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York View citations (10)

2002

17. Issues in the Demand for Medical Care
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance
18. Profits and the Hospital Sector: What Does the Literature Really Say?
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance

2001

19. An Introduction to Some Basic Microeconomics of Physician Practice
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance
20. Expenditure on Medical Care in Canada: Looking at the Numbers
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance

1996

21. A Note on the Interpretation of the Rational Addiction Model
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance

1991

22. The Costs of Hospital at Home: The Case of the New Brunswick Extra-Mural Hospital
    Working Papers, University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2017

1. Is the Rational Addiction model inherently impossible to estimate?
   Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 54, (C), 161-175 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Is the Rational Addiction model inherently impossible to estimate?, Working Papers (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2010

2. Quantile regression analysis of the rational addiction model: investigating heterogeneity in forward‐looking behavior
   Health Economics, 2010, 19, (9), 1063-1074 View citations (8)

2008

3. Building a national Health System: Learning From Other Countries' Mistakes
   Ekonomia, 2008, 11, (1), 1-18

2007

4. Investment in health when health is stochastic
   Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20, (2), 423-444 View citations (16)

2003

5. Income inequality and mortality: time series evidence from Canada
   Health Policy, 2003, 66, (1), 107-117 View citations (5)

2000

6. Interpreting the rational addiction model
   Health Economics, 2000, 9, (7), 587-598 View citations (19)

1990

7. Optimal Population Control with Uncertain Output
   Journal of Population Economics, 1990, 3, (4), 291-302

1985

8. Physician objectives and resource allocation
   Journal of Health Economics, 1985, 4, (1), 35-42 View citations (1)