EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

Abstract

This issue contains a selection of papers from the Twenty Second European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics and the Fourth Australasian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics. The European Workshop was organised by the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam and took place on 4–6 September 2013. The meeting was attended by 55 participants from 16 countries, and the programme featured 14 papers. The workshop was supported by the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation (EHERO) and the Tinbergen Institute. The Australasian Workshop was held at Launceston, Tasmania on 3–5 April 2013. Fourteen papers were presented, and 37 participants attended the workshop, and on the day before Professor Stephen Pudney from the University of Essex gave a training day on ‘Response Error and Econometric Analysis’. Sponsorship was provided by the Centre for Health Economics (Monash University), The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research (The University of Melbourne), The Economics Society of Australia, RMIT University, The Australian Health Economics Society and the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (University of Technology Sydney). All of the papers published in this issue have gone through the usual process of refereeing for Health Economics. This has been carried out on a very tight publication schedule, and we would like to thank all of the referees for their prompt responses. The 2014 European Workshop will be organised by the Department of Economics University of Munich and the Munich Centre for the Economics of Aging (MEA) and held at Starnberg in Germany. For more information about the European workshop series, see the web page http://www.york.ac.uk/economics/postgrad/herc/ews/. The 2014 Australasian Workshop was held in Freemantle, Western Australia 14–16 April 2014. The web page for the series is http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/centres/che/workshoppage.html