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Odd Rune Straume

Odd Rune Straume

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
35
Citations
4562
World Ranking
2967
National Ranking
12

Overview

Odd Rune Straume is affiliated with the University of Minho in Portugal and conducts research primarily in the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work extensively covers subfields such as economics and econometrics, general health professions, electrical and electronic engineering, pharmacology, and general economics, econometrics, and finance.

The main topics explored by Odd Rune Straume include pharmaceutical economics and policy, healthcare policy and management, health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life. Additional areas of focus are global health care issues, the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare, merger and competition analysis, and consumer market behavior and pricing.

Recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Hospital competition in a national health service: Evidence from a patient choice reform, 2021, Journal of Health Economics
  • Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Paying for pharmaceuticals: uniform pricing versus two-part tariffs, 2022, Journal of Health Economics
  • Do Hospital Mergers Reduce Waiting Times? Theory and Evidence from the English NHS, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Optimal dynamic volume-based price regulation, 2020, International Journal of Industrial Organization

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Straume include:

  • Kurt Richard Brekke
  • Dag Morten Dalen
  • Luigi Siciliani
  • Paulo Bastos
  • Natália P. Monteiro

Odd Rune Straume's work is frequently published in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Health Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Straume also contributes to book publications, with titles including Public Health Care published by Cambridge University Press in 2025 and The Division of Revenues from Unexpected Demand Shocks published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices

    Kurt R. Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume

  • Quality and Location Choices under Price Regulation

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Robert Nuscheler;Odd Rune Straume

  • Gatekeeping in health care

    Kurt R. Brekke;Robert Nuscheler;Odd Rune Straume

  • Reference pricing of pharmaceuticals.

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Ingrid Königbauer;Odd Rune Straume

  • National versus international mergers in unionised oligopoly

    Kjell Erik Lommerud;Odd Rune Straume;Lars Sørgard

  • Downstream merger with upstream market power

    Kjell Erik Lommerud;Kjell Erik Lommerud;Odd Rune Straume;Lars Sørgard

  • Reference pricing, competition, and pharmaceutical expenditures: Theory and evidence from a natural experiment

    Kurt R. Brekke;Tor Helge Holmas;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Competition and waiting times in hospital markets

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume

  • Quality competition with profit constraints

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? A natural experiment on hospital length of stay

    Tor Helge Holmås;Egil Kjerstad;Hilde Lurås;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Price and quality in spatial competition

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Patient Choice, Mobility and Competition Among Health Care Providers

    Kurt R. Brekke;Hugh Gravelle;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing

    Kjell Erik Lommerud;Frode Meland;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Employment protection versus flexicurity: on technology adoption in unionised firms

    Kjell Erik Lommerud;Odd Rune Straume

  • Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices

    Kurt R. Brekke;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume

  • Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets with Sluggish Demand

    Kurt Richard Brekke;Roberto Cellini;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume

  • Competition and quality in health care markets: a differential-game approach

    Kurt R. Brekke;Roberto Cellini;Luigi Siciliani;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Non-tariff measures and the world trading system

    Josh Ederington;Michele Ruta

  • International mergers and trade liberalisation: implications for unionised labour

    Odd Rune Straume

  • Do Treatment Decisions Depend on Physicians` Financial Incentives?

    Kurt R. Brekke;Tor Helge Holmås;Karin Monstad;Odd Rune Straume;Odd Rune Straume

  • Socioeconomic status and physicians' treatment decisions

    Kurt R. Brekke;Tor Helge Holmås;Karin Monstad;Odd Rune Straume

  • Employment Protection Versus Flexicurity: On Technology Adoption in Unionised Firms*

    Kjell Erik Lommerud;Odd Rune Straume

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Siciliani
Luigi Siciliani University of York
Hugh Gravelle
Hugh Gravelle University of York

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