ISPOR Europe 2025: A Global Conference on HEOR

The September/October issue of Intereconomics is out now, with articles by Thomas Fricke, Adam Tooze, David Kläffling, Ian Goldin, Robert Gold, Isabella Wedl, PhD, Eric Lonergan, Margit Schratzenstaller, Philipp Heimberger, Veronika Kubekova, Margarita Sanz, Thilo Kroeger, Dr. Claudia Schaffranka, Monika Schnitzer, Vitor Correia, W. Eberhard Falck and Nicholas Creel. Read the full issue #OpenAccess at https://lnkd.in/eHzpmuCB.

Proud to be featured alongside these names in the new issue of Intereconomics! How can we make #decarbonisation both faster and fairer? The article 'Beyond the Fixation on Carbon Pricing: A New Framework for Designing Climate Policy' by Eric Lonergan and myself argues that #climatepolicy must move beyond viewing CO2 as a mere negative externality. Instead we should start paying more attention to capital costs and price elasticity - the main bottlenecks for accelerating green investment and helping consumers switch to low-carbon alternatives. We propose a pragmatic policy mix that sequences carbon pricing with targeted positive incentives and measures to lower the cost of capital for green investments to ensure effectiveness and social acceptance. This article is based on a forthcoming Forum New Economy Discussion paper which will be published soon on the Forum website – stay tuned.

At ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research Europe, Analysis Group consultants will present 11 research posters, and Managing Principal Eric Wu, Principal Jimmy Royer, and Vice President Rajeev Ayyagari will participate in an educational symposium on key developments, challenges, and applications of GenAI in health care. https://lnkd.in/exbAWNyP

Dr. Kristina S. Yu, PhD, MPH, RPh, our VP of Health Economics & Outcomes Research and Real-World Evidence, shared multiple poster sessions last month at #WorldSleep2025, including information on gender-based differences in psychological burden along with an analysis of prevalence of OSA in US adults. Explore our SHINE survey results highlighting the real-world impact of OSA: https://lnkd.in/gw4cGQEf

Dr Ghislain Arbour, Senior Lecturer at the Assessment & Evaluation Research Centre (AERC), presented his latest article at the Australian Evaluation Society Annual Conference in Canberra on September 18th. Arbour, G. (2025). Redefining research on evaluation to unlock its full empirical and conceptual potential. New Directions for Evaluation. https://lnkd.in/gZrKwfct (Open Access) The presentation introduced a new conceptual framework for evaluation-related research, distinguishing between Research on Evaluation (RoE), the scientific inquiry of evaluation phenomena and Research in Evaluation (RiE), the scientific inquiry of the value of social interventions. The session also featured other leading academics in RoE, including Dr Ruth Aston (University of Adelaide), co-editor of the recent special issue on RoE in New Directions for Evaluation. The presentation sparked lively discussion, with participants from both academia and practice expressing strong interest in the article and in further exploring how evaluation-related research can best support the growth of the field.

I'm grateful to have been able to present my recent research at the 14th Behavioral and Experimental Economics Network Meeting in Cagliari, Italy! Thank you to the organizers (Federico Atzori and others) and all in attendance. Like many countries, France has developed place-based financial incentive public policies to attract healthcare professionals to medical deserts. Even though financial incentives can be very motivating, they don't always influence behavior as planned (see the work by Uri Gneezy). So, I'm researching to what extent these and other place-based policies can scale (see the work by John List) with my team at the Unité de Recherche Elinor Ostrom. The key takeaway is this: place-based incentive policies are only effective at small scale. If a given municipality is treated with an incentive policy, it attracts its healthcare workers from the untreated municipalities. But once every municipality is eligible for incentives because "everywhere has a need," where do the workers come from? Scaling such a policy returns us to the equilibrium geographic distribution, just in a much more expensive way. Thus academic studies evaluating pilots of place-based incentive policies will systematically overestimate their impact and underestimate their cost at scale. My team and I are working on this and many other evaluations of the French healthcare system using publicly available datasets (such as CartoSanté and the Annuaire de Santé). Stay tuned for more research findings!

The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (#ICER–USA), Canada’s Drug Agency (#CDA-AMC), and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (#NICE - England) have convened the Health Economics Methods Advisory (HEMA) group to provide independent and critical guidance on new methods and processes for economic evaluation. This first #HEMA report focuses on potential extensions to the #benefits considered in #economic_evaluation. #admin To join our Telegram group: https://lnkd.in/diu6rsnA To learn econometrics, economic evaluation, decision analytic models, and stats: https://lnkd.in/dtUSnsk2.

MRU Visiting Lecturer prof. David Schultz on a Divided America David Schultz, Professor of Political Science at Hamline University (USA) and Visiting Lecturer at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), shares his insights on the growing polarization in the United States. In his latest analysis, Prof. Schultz examines how the recent government shutdown, debates over healthcare, and rising political tensions reflect deeper cultural, economic, and social divides that have been building for decades. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e4cjKkYh

Attention European Studies scholars and those interested in interdisciplinary research 🚨🚨🚨 In a new book chapter, Monika de Silva, PhD and I explore interdisciplinarity in European Studies. You can find the chapter here: https://lnkd.in/dEJpRwKt We argue that interdisciplinarity can be systematically engaged with and taught as a method. Building on a typology of interdisciplinarity, we offer examples that can serve as guidance for those who want to conduct interdisciplinary research. Empirically, we analyze ways of combining disciplines in published European studies research. Three questions guide our analysis: 1) How interdisciplinary is European Studies? 2) Which types of interdisciplinarity are most common? 3) Does interdisciplinary work receive fewer citations? We find that authors rarely explicitly claim to conduct interdisciplinary research. However, collaborations between authors from different disciplines are more common. It is the most common for scholars to incorporate elements (theories, methods, etc.) from several disciplines into their work. Political scientists most frequently incorporate elements of law and economics. We find no significant evidence that interdisciplinary work gets fewer (or more) citations than unidisciplinary contributions. The chapter is part of a book project, which aims to define and advance non-unidisciplinarity in European Studies with several cool conceptual and empirical contributions.

Ever wondered how to do interdisciplinary research, but wasn't quite sure how? Am I well-rounded enough? Do I need to collaborate across departments? Is it risky? Felix Lehmann and I study output from top European Studies journals and find that interdisciplinarity, even though rarely declared, is actually quite common as cross-departmental collaboration and as combination of questions-theories-methods-empirics from more than one discipline. At the same time, interdisciplinary output does not receive fewer citations than typically disciplined one. The chapter can be used as guidance for those who want to draw more deliberately from different disciplines.