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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002387
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016242
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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504391
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How Costly is it for Poor Farmers to Lift Themselves out of Subsistence?
Cadot, Olivier; Dutoit, Laure; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The main objective of this paper is to provide estimates of the cost of moving out of subsistence for Madagascar …
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The Elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, Ten Years On
Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime; Dutoit, Laure - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Commodity prices are usually very slow to recover from adverse shocks. This is one of the reasons why it has proven so difficult either to smooth their effect or to stabilize them, and why it is sometimes argued that they should behave as if shocks were permanent. There is no reason however why...
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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
pharmaceuticals, specifically drug reformulation regulatory gaming. …
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Parallel Imports and Price Controls
Grossman, Gene; Lai, Edwin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
pharmaceuticals. We challenge this orthodox view and show, to the contrary, that the pace of innovation often is faster in a world …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003149
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Pharmaceuticals - Who's Afraid of `1992'?
Klepper, Gernot - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
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 …
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Vaccines vs. Preventives
Kremer, Michael; Snyder, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Preventives are sold ex ante, before disease status is realized, while treatments are sold ex post. Even if the mean of the ex ante distribution of consumer values is the same as that ex post, the shape of the distributions may differ, generating a difference between the surplus each product can...
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