Research
Publications
Liu, Ya-Ming , Yen-Lien Kuo, Hone-Jay Chu, Wun-Ci Kuo, Hsin-Chieh Tseng. (2023). Health Care Cost of Floods: Evidence from Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan. Journal of Asian Economics. 87: 101635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2023.101635
Lee, Ming-Hsuan, Ya-Ming Liu, Clarence Yu. (2023). Does Using Social Media Increase or Decrease Happiness? An Empirical Study of Facebook Users in Taiwan. Pacific Economic Review. http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0106.12429
Liu, Ya-Ming. (2023). Counterfactual Decomposition of Health Care Expenditures: from Cost-Based Payment to a Global Budget System. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 23(1): 79-111. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2020-0344
Liu, Ya-Ming, Chon-Kit Ao. (2021). Effect of Air Pollution on Health Care Expenditure: Evidence from Respiratory Diseases. Health Economics. 30: 858-875. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4221
Liu, Ya-Ming. (2020). Understanding Profit Margins of Medical Providers from Prescription Drugs: Evidence from Taiwan. International Health. 12(4): 272-280.
Liu, Ya-Ming. (2020). Population Aging, Technological Innovation, and the Growth of Health Expenditure: Evidence from Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Taiwan. Value in Health Regional Issues. 21(C): 120-126.
Liu, Ya-Ming. (2020). Revisiting the Pharmaceutical Price Gap (再論藥價差), Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 39(1), 64-73. (in Chinese)
Liu, Ya-Ming, Te-Fen Lo, Yu-Ting Nien. (2017). An Empirical Analysis of Exits from the Hospital Market (醫院退出市場因素之分析). Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 36(3), 273-287. (in Chinese)
Qu, Huang-Tz, Kai-Cheng Chang, Ya-Ming Liu, Jin-Shang Wu. (2017). Recent trends in utilization of antidiabetic medications from 2008-2013: a nation-wide population-based study from Taiwan. Journal of Diabetes. 9, 256-266.
Chang, Yu-Chun, Miaofen Yen, Sheng-Mao Chang, Ya-Ming Liu. (2017). Exploring the Relationship between Nursing Hours per Patient Day and Mortality Rate of Hospitalized Patients in Taiwan. Journal of Nursing Management. 25, 85-92.
Ou, Huang Tz, Yen-Ting Chen, Ya-Ming Liu, Jin-Shang Wu. (2016). Comparative cost-effectiveness of metformin-based dual therapies associated with risk of cardiovascular diseases among Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes: Evidence from a population-based national cohort in Taiwan. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 116, 14-25.
Liu, Ya-Ming, Chee-Ruey Hsieh. (2014). Profit-Seeking Behavior of Medical Providers and Generic Competition in the Pharmaceutical Market: Evidence from Taiwan, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 14(1), 241-275.
Liu., Ya-Ming, Huang-Tz Ou, Yen-Kuang Yang. (2014) Choice of Generic versus Brand-Name Antidepressants in a Regulated Prescription Drug Market: Evidence from Taiwan, The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 17(4), 163-172.
Hsieh, Chee-Ruey, Ya-Ming Liu, Chia-Ling Chang. (2013). Endogenous Technological Change in Medicine and Its Impact on Health Care Costs: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market in Taiwan, European Journal of Health Economics.14, 287-29.
Lee, Miaw-Chwen, Ya-Ming Liu. (2013). Age-Related Patterns of Income-Related Inequality in Mortality among the Middle-Aged and the Elderly in Taiwan by Different Cohorts (台灣中高齡人口不同世代所得相關死亡率不平等之年齡變化趨勢). Taiwan Journal of Public Health. 32(3), 279-288. (in Chinese)
Liu, Ya-Ming, Yea-Huei Kao Yang YH, Chee-Ruey Hsieh. (2012). Regulation and Competition in the Taiwanese Pharmaceutical Market under National Health Insurance, Journal of Health Economics. 31(3), 471-483.
Liu, Ya-Ming, Chee-Ruey Hsieh. (2012). New Drugs and the Growth of Health Expenditure: Evidence from Diabetic Patients in Taiwan, Health Economics, 21(5), 496-513.
Liu, Ya-Ming, Jur-Shan Cheng. (2012). Determinants of Generic Entry in Taiwanese Regulated Prescription Drug Market, Health Policy, 108(2-3), 228-235.
Hsieh, Chee-Ruey, Ya-Ming Liu. (2012). Availability, Healthcare Costs and Utilization Patterns of Biologics in Taiwan, Value in Health. 15(1), S35-S42.
Liu, Ya-Ming, Yea-Huei Kao Yang, Chee-Ruey Hsieh. (2011). The Determinants of the Adoption of Pharmaceutical Innovation: Evidence from Taiwan, Social Science & Medicine. 72, 919-927.
Liu, Ya-Ming, Yea-Huei Kao Yang, Huang-Tz Ou. (2010). Hospital Competition and Prescribing Behaviors – Empirical Evidence from Taiwan, Journal of Developing Areas. 43(2), 125-141.
Liu, Ya-Ming, Yea-Huei Kao Yang, Chee-Ruey Hsieh. (2009). Financial Incentives and Physicians' Prescription Decisions on the Choice between Brand-Name and Generic Drugs: Evidence from Taiwan, Journal of Health Economics. 28(2), 341-349.
Liu, Ya-Ming, Jean Kinsey. (2005). The Effect of Competition on the Practice of Outpatient Services for Diabetes Patients at Different Levels of Hospitals in Taiwan, Applied Economics. 37(12), 1411-1422.
Liu, Ya-Ming. (2004). An Application of Adverse Selection: Rural Agricultural Production in China since the 1950s, Applied Economics Letters. 11, 915-917.