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Pharmaceutical Innovation, Longevity, and Medical Expenditure in Greece, 1995-2010
Lichtenberg, Frank - CESifo - 2015
death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that … the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but 62% of … the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122677
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Silent Interests and All-Pay Auctions
Konrad, Kai A. - CESifo - 2005
If firms compete in all-pay auctions with complete information, silent shareholdings introduce asymmetric externalities into the all-pay auction framework. If the strongest firm owns a large share in the second strongest firm, this may make the strongest firm abstain from bidding. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196292
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Ownership Concentration and Share Valuation: Evidence from Germany
Edwards, Jeremy; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 1999
Concentrated ownership of large listed companies is widespread throughout the world, and Germany is typical in this respect. This paper proposes a method of distinguishing empirically between the beneficial and harmful effects of ownership concentration, and applies it to German data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406388
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Debt Financing and Sharp Currency Depreciations: Wholly vs. Partially Owned Multinational Affiliates
Hebous, Shafik; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 2009
This paper provides empirical evidence on two potential costs of shared ownership of German affiliates abroad. First, in periods of currency crises, wholly-owned affiliates, in contrast to partially-owned affiliates, seem to circumvent financial constraints by accessing capital from their parent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572531
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On the Choice of Royalty Rule to Cover Fixed Costs in Input Joint Ventures
Fjell, Kenneth; Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - CESifo - 2013
incorporated. We find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme. We …
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Competition in the Presence of Individual Demand Uncertainty
Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - CESifo - 2013
This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …
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Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
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