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Does Price Reveal Poor-Quality Drugs? Evidence from 17 Countries
Bate, Roger - 2011
Focusing on 8 drug types on the WHO-approved medicine list, we constructed an original dataset of 899 drug samples from 17 low- and median-income countries and tested them for visual appearance, disintegration, and analyzed their ingredients by chromatography and spectrometry. Fifteen percent of...
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COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide : An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates time-varying COVID-19 reproduction numbers worldwide solely based on the number of reported infected cases, allowing for under-reporting. Estimation is based on a moment condition that can be derived from an agent-based stochastic network model of COVID-19 transmission. The...
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Biological Health Risks and Economic Development
Frankenberg, Elizabeth - 2015
With populations aging and the epidemic of obesity spreading across the globe, global health risks are shifting toward non-communicable diseases. Innovative biomarker data from recently conducted population-representative surveys in lower, middle and higher income countries are used to describe...
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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response
Oster, Emily - 2016
Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...
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Discoveries in the Economics of Aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2014
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Financial globalisation : fifth BIS Annual Research Conference, 19 - 20 June 2006
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The Regulation of Entry
Djankov, Simeon - 2000
We present new data on the regulation of entry of start-up firms in 75 countries. The data set contains information on … official costs of entry are extremely high in most countries. Countries with heavier regulation of entry have higher corruption … benevolent regulation, but support the (grabbing hand) view that entry regulation benefits politicians and bureaucrats …
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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating … arise in multi- party relationships and that regulation introduces opportunities to impose rules that enhance the welfare of … discretion and choose actions for the common good. Agency-cost theories portray regulation as a way to raise the quality of …
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Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions
Merton, Robert C. - 1995
New security designs, improvements in computer telecommunications technology and advances in the theory of finance have led to revolutionary changes in the structure of financial markets and institutions. This paper provides a functional perspective on the dynamics of institutional change and...
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