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This study aims to map and analyze health-care pricing information research. This work highlights current gap in pricing information research in health care and proposes future research avenues to academia and industry professionals.

A bibliometric method was adopted to analyze extant literature on pricing information asymmetry. Semistructured interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in health care to triangulate the findings.

Pricing information is crucial for all stakeholders including health-care consumers, providers and regulators. The popular research areas were the rising health-care cost, cost-saving, outcome-based pricing, price based on service supply and demand, insurance and out-of-pocket spending. Cost–quality perceived linkages, cost–demand correlation in health-care service and cost–price interlinked drivers were the dominant themes in extant literature. The study highlighted that pricing information asymmetry pushed patients from weaker sections into a debt trap due to unplanned out-of-pocket health-care expenses. The study suggests areas of research to minimize this pricing information asymmetry.

The emerging themes in health pricing asymmetry will help key stakeholders to identify areas for improvement and take remedial actions in the health-care domain.

This study is a pioneering effort to summarize extant literature published in the health-care information pricing domain and analyze it from a bibliometric perspective. The study also triangulates the finding with primary data from key stakeholders and highlights emerging research areas.

This study aims to examine how the adoption of digital technologies affects the business competitiveness of countries in Latin American and European countries.

This study used a structural model based on factors representing the pillars of the Global Competitiveness Index: financial system, adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), skills, labor market, product market, macroeconomic stability, business dynamism and gross domestic product (GDP) purchasing power parity (PPP) as a percentage of the total world value. The authors considered 17 Latin American and 28 European countries. The model was analyzed by partial least squares-structural equation modeling.

ICT adoption in Latin American countries is a strong predictor of business dynamism (66% of the variance), skills (81% of the variance), product market (75% of the variance), labor market (42% of the variance) and financial system (49% of the variance). Similarly, ICT adoption in European countries is a strong predictor of business dynamism (35.6% of the variance), skills (72.2% of the variance), product market (51.6% of the variance), labor market (81.7% of the variance, but with a negative path coefficient) and financial system (38% of the variance).

Latin American countries should create policies to build skills to increase ICT adoption, and improve business and labor market dynamism. A theoretical implication is that the authors propose two structural models based on the GCI that best explains competitiveness in Europe and Latin America.

Using GCI data, the authors present empirical evidence on the predictors of competitiveness across 17 Latin American and 28 European countries with a special focus on the adoption of digital technologies.

In the current study, corporate investment is examined by using a user cost of capital model for two important Latin American economies: Brazil and Mexico. In this paper, a dynamic user cost of capital model is employed. The extended model also accounts the investment model with the convex adjustment cost. Moreover, the link between structural change, financial liberalization and investment is also investigated. The present study, therefore, sheds new lights on the investment behavior of the Latin American emerging markets.

The differenced generalized method of moments approach is employed to control the endogeneity, heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation for modeling the corporate investment over 20 years for both countries.

The findings indicate that the dynamic user cost of capital-based investment model explains the corporate investment in Brazil and Mexico. Especially, the interest rate and depreciation explain the investment behavior of nonfinancial firms in both countries. At the same time, structural change and financial liberalization do not have a significant impact on interest rates, an important user cost of capital.

This is the first study examines the corporate investment using dynamic user costs of capital approach for an emerging market. The user cost of capital-based investment models is clearly understudied models for emerging markets. This study is particularly important for emerging markets as investment models need to have a theoretical background.

En el presente estudio se examina la inversión empresarial utilizando un modelo de coste de capital del usuario para dos importantes economías latinoamericanas: Brasil y México. En este trabajo se emplea un modelo dinámico de coste de capital para el usuario. El modelo ampliado también tiene en cuenta el modelo de inversión con el coste de ajuste convexo. Además, se investiga la relación entre el cambio estructural, la liberalización financiera y la inversión. El presente estudio, por tanto, arroja nueva luz sobre el comportamiento de la inversión en los mercados emergentes latinoamericanos.

Se emplea el método GMM diferenciado para controlar la endogeneidad, la heteroscedasticidad y la autocorrelación en la modelización de la inversión empresarial a lo largo de 20 años en ambos países.

Los resultados indican que el modelo dinámico de inversión basado en el coste de capital para el usuario explica la inversión empresarial en Brasil y México. Especialmente, el tipo de interés y la depreciación explican el comportamiento de la inversión de las empresas no financieras en ambos países. Al mismo tiempo, se constata que el cambio estructural y la liberalización financiera no tienen un efecto significativo sobre los tipos de interés, que es un importante coste de uso del capital.

Este es el primer estudio que examina la inversión empresarial utilizando un enfoque dinámico basado en los costes de capital para un mercado emergente. Los modelos de inversión basados en los costes de uso del capital son claramente modelos poco estudiados para los mercados emergentes. Este estudio es especialmente importante para los mercados emergentes, ya que los modelos de inversión deben tener un trasfondo teórico.