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Price Regulation, Investment and the Commitment Problem

Levine, Paul L; Rickman, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We consider a dynamic model of price regulation with asymmetric information where strategic delegation is available to the regulator. Firms can sink non- contractible, cost-reducing investment but regulators cannot commit to future price levels. We fully characterize the Perfect Bayesian...

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Innovative Clusters and the Industry Life Cycle

Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The purpose of this paper is to link the propensity for innovative activity to cluster spatially to the stage of the industry life cycle. The theory of knowledge spillovers, based on the knowledge production function for innovative activity, suggests that geographic proximity matters most in...

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Does Europe have an innovation policy? The case of EU economic law

Battaglia, Lauren; Larouche, Pierre; Negrinotti, Matteo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

innovation policy in the context of EU economic law (competition policy, intellectual property law, sector regulation). As such … law that moves beyond apparent conflicts and assumes innovation as the starting point. Taking this as the foundation, the … analytical grid to be used to identify ways in which economic law impacts innovation, and second an applied component that …

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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

Kyle, Margaret K; McGahan, Anita M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments. The TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for countries in the World Trade Organization, has increased levels of...

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Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation

de Mouzon, Oliver; Dubois, Pierre; Scott Morton, Fiona; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

the hypothesis that innovation in pharmaceuticals is becoming more difficult and expensive over time, as costs of …This paper quantifies the relationship between market size and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. We estimate … the elasticity of innovation, as measured by the number of new chemical entities appearing on the market for a given …

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On the Evolution of the US Consumer Wealth Distribution

Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We use all available waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances to document the evolution of the wealth distribution in the US since the 1980s. We then rely on the shape of this distribution to estimate a life-cycle incomplete markets model. We find that considering a wide range of net-worth...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current...

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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income

Bovenberg, A Lans; Jacobs, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labour incomes in a life-cycle model of human capital investment, financial savings, and labour supply with heterogenous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not only labour income but also capital income is...

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Consumption Over the Life-Cycle

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Parker, Jonathan A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper employs cohort technique and Consumer Expenditure Survey data to construct average age-profiles of consumption and income over the working lives of typical households across different education and occupation groups. Using these profiles, we estimate a structural model of optimal...

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Winners and Losers in Housing Markets

Kiyotaki, Nobuhiro; Michaelides, Alexander; Nikolov, Kalin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper is a quantitatively-oriented theoretical study into the interaction between housing prices, aggregate production, and household behavior over a lifetime. We develop a life-cycle model of a production economy in which land and capital are used to build residential and commercial real...

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