This paper uses administrative National Health Service hospital records to examine key features of public hospital spending in England.

This paper examines health status differences between England and the United States, with an emphasis on the implications of any health disparities for health care cost differences between the two countries.

This is the introduction to a special issue of Fiscal Studies, looking at medical spending around the developed world.

‘Randomisation bias’ in the medical literature: a review

We want to understand how important market frictions are in stifling the transmission of ideas from one firm to another. We use comprehensive data on patent applications from the European Patent Office and a multiple spells duration model to provide estimates that suggest that they are substantial.