Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/68084 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 01,11
Publisher: 
University of Kent, Department of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
We study the impact a redistribution of income has on the decisions of a health care innovator and the utility of consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its price and increases the utility of some of the consumers whose income is reduced through the redistribution.
Subjects: 
Health care
Innovation
Income Redistribution
JEL: 
D4
L1
I1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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