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The Health Economics Research Group is one of the research groups of the University of La Rioja (Spain). Its academic activity takes place at the Faculty of Business at the University of La Rioja, also participating in various subjects of the Master in Business Management as well as in the doctorate program in Business Economics at the University of La Rioja. The research group also collaborates in other scientific forums and professional bodies such as the Spanish Health Economics Association. 

Main areas of research: Economic evaluation of health technologies (dynamic and Markovian modelling of diseases, budget impact analysis of technologies, costs calculations.). Studies of the efficiency of health organizations (data envelopment analysis). Theoretical economic decision- making models for health policy and management (patents, research activities of health technology industry, price and reimbursement of drugs, risk-sharing agreements, personalized medicine implementation.). Economics of drugs (analysis of the pharmaceutical sector, time series analysis of trends, pricing, consumption, research and development analysis.). Quantitative models applied to the health sector (econometric and time series analysis).