• Title of article

    The overprovision of infectious disease medicine

  • Author/Authors

    John Douglas Sk?tun، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    61
  • To page
    66
  • Abstract
    This paper demonstrates a so far ignored negative externality imposed by the provision of life prolonging drugs to infected carriers of infectious diseases. Private optimal usage tends to imply socially inefficient over-provision of life enhancing infectious disease medication.
  • Keywords
    epidemics , Externalities , Drug provision
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    435206