pharmaceuticals, specifically drug reformulation regulatory gaming. …

patent laws and the severity of disease, we test the hypothesis that increased patent protection results in greater drug …

the hypothesis that innovation in pharmaceuticals is becoming more difficult and expensive over time, as costs of …

creating an internal market for pharmaceuticals can be analysed. In a model of third-degree price discrimination, arbitrage … Market in pharmaceuticals are ambiguous, since a movement from segmented and price-controlled markets towards integrated …

likelihood of vaccine development but not drug development. …

pharmaceuticals. We challenge this orthodox view and show, to the contrary, that the pace of innovation often is faster in a world …

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth … by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behaviour, higher … better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …