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The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Longevity and Medical Expenditure in Sweden, 1997-2010: Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data

Lichtenberg, Frank; Pettersson, Billie - CESifo - 2012

expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is …We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …

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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?

Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014

destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …

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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries

Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - CESifo - 2008

manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow …

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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment

Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - CESifo - 2014

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U …

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Informal Benchmarks as a Source of Regulatory Threat in Unregulated Utility Sectors

Söderberg, Magnus - CESifo - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent unregulated local monopolies attempt not to evoke the introduction of a formal price regulation by conforming to customers’ and authorities’ expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet expectations by setting prices that imitate neighbours’...

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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-Sharing vs. Social Insurance

Agell, Jonas - CESifo - 2000

What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...

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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth

Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 2011

We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an …

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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - CESifo - 2014

learning—learning through R&D in wind turbine manufacturing, learning from previous experience of installation, and learning …

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The Role of Standards in Eco-innovation: Lessons for Policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Werf, Edwin van der - CESifo - 2013

discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and … instruments. Finally we discuss how governments might contribute to eco-innovation by selecting, stimulating or creating (inter …

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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2000

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...

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