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Evaluation of the Pharmaceutical Industry Investment Program

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

With the expiry of the Pharmaceutical Industry Investment Program (PIIP) in 2004, the Commission was asked to conduct an evaluation of the program’s rationale, effectiveness and efficiency. The study commenced in August 2002. The Commission found that this assistance scheme had significant...

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Protéger les méthodes commerciales liées à Internet : un frein au développement ?

Delzelle, Benoit - EconWPA - 2003

La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger des biens immatériels ou des idées ? N'est-ce pas menacer durablement le développement de la "nouvelle économie" ? N'est-ce pas brider l'activité inventive et...

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How Well Do Patent Citations Measure Flows of Technology? Evidence from French Innovation Surveys

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Megan, MacGARVIE - EconWPA - 2004

Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Research … diffusing outward from the patenting entity. Until now, there exists little evidence on whether or not patent citations are a … good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of …

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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of …

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Advantageous or Disadvantageous Semi-collusion Licensing in a Vertically Separated Industry

Mukherjee, Arijit - EconWPA - 2002

off under non- cooperation (semi-collusion) for sufficiently lower pre-innovation costs of production. We also show that …

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Modeling the effect of Consumer Utility through Personalized Services and Compensating Variance through Greater Product Variety on Increased Spending in Online Advertisements

Datta, Avimanyu; Coondoo, Rwitankar - EconWPA - 2005

Extending and combining concepts from consumer surplus of product availability and personalization strategies under privacy concern we made a model to comprehend and justify the reasons for the increase in the spending on online advertisements. We inductively found that with higher capability to...

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Recreation Demand Analysis under Truncation, Overdispersion, and Endogenous Stratification: An Application to Gros Morne National Park

Martinez-Espineira, Roberto; Amoako-Tuffour, Joe - EconWPA - 2005

Using on-site survey data from Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, this paper estimates and compares several truncated count data models of recreation demand. The model that not only accounts for the truncated and overdispersed nature of the data but also for endogenous stratification duet...

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International pharmaceutical price differences

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

The study compares manufacturer prices in Australia and seven other countries for 150 pharmaceuticals listed on the …

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The Productivity of Pharmaceuticals in Improving Health: An Analysis of the OECD Health Data

Shaw, James W.; Horrace, William C.; Vogel, Ronald J. - EconWPA - 2002

pharmaceuticals as a separate input into the production of health. Building upon existing published work, this paper uses an …

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Energy market liberalisation in the FSU - simulations with the GTAP model

Riipinen, Toni - EconWPA - 2004

This work considers effects of energy market liberalisation in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU). Our analysis is based on a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model called the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). This specialised model makes it possible to evaluate effects in a...

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