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Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Vertical Relationships in Drug Supply : State of Current Research
Brot-Goldberg, Zarek C.; Che, Catherine; Handel, Benjamin R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Despite their importance to the supply of prescription drugs, there has been limited research on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their vertical relationships to insurers and drug manufacturers. This paper provides an overview of the current state of research on this topic, motivates why...
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The Value of Information in International Trade : Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2002
In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides welfare gains to foreign firms using these services....
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Entrepreneurship in International Trade
Rauch, James E. - 2002
Motivated by evidence on the importance of incomplete information and networks in international trade, we investigate the supply of 'network intermediation.' We hypothesize that the agents who become international trade intermediaries first accumulate networks of foreign contacts while working...
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Balance-of-payments adjustment policies: Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands
Michaely, Michael - 1968
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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry
Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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Low Wage Services : Interpreting the US - German Difference
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
-wage services in the US and Germany. We find a clear low-wage service jobs deficit' in Germany but this is not due to excessively …
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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment : Germany vs. the US
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job … creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a …
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Expectations Hypotheses Tests
Bekaert, Geert - 2000
We investigate the Expectations Hypotheses of the term structure of interest rates and of the foreign exchange market using vector autoregressive methods for the U.S. dollar, Deutsche mark, and British pound interest rates and exchange rates. In addition to standard Wald tests, we formulate...
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