Similar Search Results

Parallel Imports of Pharmaceutical Products in the European Union

Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - 2001

We study the effects of parallel trade in the pharmaceutical industry. We develop a model in which an original manufacturer competes in its home market with parallel-importing firms. The theoretical analysis results in two key hypotheses. First, if the potential for parallel imports is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334916

Parallel Import and the Pricing of Pharmaceutical Products: Evidence from the European Union

Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - 2004

We consider policy issues regarding parallel imports (PIs) of brand-name pharmaceuticals in the European Union, where such trade is permitted. We develop a simple model in which an original manufacturer competes in its home market with PI firms. The model suggests that for small trade costs the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320147

Vertical Distribution, Parallel Trade, and Price Divergence in Integrated Markets

Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - 2005

We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets that are integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). The manufacturing firm needs to set these two prices to balance three competing interests: restricting competition...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320183

International outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom

Hijzen, Alexander (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour … demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002226190

International fragmentation and relative wages in the UK

Hijzen, Alexander (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001733870

Do foreign-owned firms provide better working conditions than their domestic counterparts? : a comparative analysis

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2010

This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153566