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effect of acute cardiovascular health shocks resulting in unplanned hospitalisation, on blue collars' long-term labour …
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This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers' decision weight on quality...
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welfare, when the effects on public health are taken into account. In particular, we study how the new international patent … rights enforcement on our definition of public health …
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study sheds light on the comparative effectiveness of private and public regulation in the pharmaceutical and health care …
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While regulatory agencies place high values on the benefits associated with the reduction in mortality risks due to regulations, these same agencies substantially undervalue lives in their enforcement efforts. The disparity between the valuation of prospective risks and fatalities that have...
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The government of Canada, in December 2020, proposed to implement a nicotine concentration limit of 20 mg/ml for e-liquid sales. This paper is a critique of that proposal. The scientific literature does not provide support for the claim that a 20 mg/ml nicotine concentration will reduce...
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This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers’ decision weight on quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250511
This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers’ decision weight on quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390724
remains a pressing public health hazard. But in the 21st century, the tobacco industry has quietly moved its locus of activity … and should enact. The World Health Organization treaty, the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, requires signatory … include: national tobacco regulatory agencies; comprehensive bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship; health …
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Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality information. The FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) provides an opportunity to understand if a regulator can use new policy to innovate around this...
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