Indirect costs and discounting in health care decision-making: The role of distortionary taxation

Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-30

  Liu, Liqun ^a   Rettenmaier, Andrew J ^a   Saving, Thomas R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Discounting; Health care costs; Marginal cost of funds

Indexed keywords

EID: 30644479153     PISSN: 15380645     EISSN: 15380645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1538-0645.1512     Document Type: Article

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