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The place of contract in organizational awareness: deconstructing process, market and connectedness

Scott, Susan V.; Paris, Carolyn - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Throughout modern business history, contract has been used as an organizational technology that holds counterparties in … formal or legally binding agreements. The proliferation of contract prompted the emergence of professional contract managers …), contract has come to be seen as a standard coordination device whose foundational assumptions are taken for granted. In this …

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The inherent limits of ‘legal devices’: lessons for the public sector's central counterparty prescription for the OTC derivatives markets

Braithwaite, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In the wake of the financial crisis considerable momentum has built up behind proposals to extend central counterparty (CCP) clearing in the over-the-counter derivatives markets. However, implementation is proving complex. This paper argues that one cause of this complexity is that the public...

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Law through practice: London and Liverpool commodity markets c.1820-1975

Cranston, Ross - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Although now forgotten, organized markets in commodities like grain, cotton, sugar, coffee and spices became firmly established in London and Liverpool in the nineteenth century. These markets were stimulated by the rising volume of international trade, as Britain became the first industrial...

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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...

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Patents and the global diffusion of new drugs

Cockburn, Iain; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...

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Advanced purchase commitments for a malaria vaccine: estimating costs and effectiveness

Berndt, Ernst R.; Glennerster, Rachel; Kremer, Michael R.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

degree to which various contract models and assumptions would affect the cost-effectiveness of such a commitment for the case …

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Is medicines parallel trade ‘regulatory arbitrage’?

Costa-i-Font, Joan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

In the European Union, medicines are regulated products subject to both single market (e.g., regional exhaustion of property rights) and country specific health care regulations (e.g., medicines pricing). This gives rise to parallel trade (PT), a phenomenon that takes place when a patented...

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Multiple criteria decision analysis for value based assessment of new medical technologies: a conceptual framework

Kanavos, Panos; Angelis, Aris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Assessing the value of new medical technologies may require new approaches that take into account a more comprehensive set of parameters than the incremental cost/QALY. It is argued that MCDA can fulfil this role and has the potential to be methodologically superior to the currently used...

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