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Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Quantity Discounts and Private Information
Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - CESifo - 2013
, uniform pricing increases downstream investments in cost reduction in the long run. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877898
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Choosing among Competing Blockbusters: Does the Identity of the Third-Party Payer Matter for Prescribing Doctors?
Dalen, Dag Morten; Sorisio, Enrico; Strøm, Steinar - CESifo - 2010
TNF-alpha inhibitors represent one of the most important areas of biopharmaceuticals by sales, with three blockbusters accounting for 8 % of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. With use of a unique natural policy experiment in Norway, this paper examines to what extent the identity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727300
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Market Entry Regulation and International Competition
Upmann, Thorsten; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2003
As a part of their industry or competition policies governments decide whether to allow for free market entry of firms or to regulate market access. We analyze a model where governments (ab)use these policy decisions for strategic reasons in an international setting. Multiple equilibria of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196323
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A Probability Approach to Pharmaceutical Demand and Price Setting: Does the Identity of the Third-Party Payer Mattersfor Prescribing Doctors?
Dalen, Dag Morten; Locatelli, Marilena; Sorisio, Enrico; … - CESifo - 2011
TNF-alpha inhibitors represent one of the most important areas of biopharmaceuticals by sales, with three blockbusters accounting for 8 per cent of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. Novelty of the paper is to examine, with the use of a unique natural policy experiment in Norway, to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371358
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Investment Policy for Time-Inconsistent Discounters
Harstad, Bård - CESifo - 2013
the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future … savings and decrease investments in the strategic substitutes, for example. To characterize the principal’s choices they are … benefits from subsidizing investments in “green” capital (complementary to future savings) and tax investments in substitute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877709
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Estimating Fluctuations in Oil and Gas Investment
Dahl, Roy Endré; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2014
Governments in extraction countries are anxious to estimate expected investment in development projects, since they represent an essential element of the macro economy. The overall level of activity is also crucial to oil companies, since the macro picture affects cost levels, the supplies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948869
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Optimal Energy Investment and R&D Strategies to Stabilise Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Concentrations
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - CESifo - 2007
The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765756
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Price-Dependent Profit Sharing as an Escape from the Bertrand Paradox
Foros, Oystein; Hagen, Kare P.; Kind, Hans Jarle - CESifo - 2007
firms undertake investments which benefit the industry in aggregate. The model is consistent with observations from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094252
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Exit Dynamics of Start-up Firms: Does Profit Matter?
Golombek, Rolf; Raknerud, Arvid - CESifo - 2015
We estimate by means of indirect inference a structural economic model where firms’ exit and investment decisions are the solution to a discrete-continuous dynamic programming problem. In the model the exit probability depends on the current capital stock and a measure of short-run...
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Industry Structure and Pricing over the Business Cycle
Spiegel, Yossi; Stahl, Konrad O. - CESifo - 2014
We consider the interaction between an incumbent firm and a potential entrant, and examine how this interaction is affected by demand fluctuations. Our model gives rise to procyclical entry, prices, and price-cost margins, although the average price in the market can be countercyclical if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877829