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Technological Progress and Health Convergence : The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy
Alsan, Marcella - 2019
Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear. New substitutes for older, more expensive health technologies can produce convergence in population health outcomes, but may also be prone to "elite capture"...
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When Technological Advance Meets Physician Learning in Drug Prescribing
Depalo, Domenico - 2019
The support for scientific investigation in biomedicine depends in part on the adoption of new knowledge into medical practice. We investigate how a technological advance, in the form of a large and influential 2010 randomized controlled study, changed physician practice in statin (a medication...
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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm
Ichino, Andrea - 1999
The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional …
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The Cost of Banking Regulation
Guiso, Luigi - 2006
We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …
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How Do Banks Set Interest Rates?
Gambacorta, Leonardo - 2004
disentangle loan supply from loan demand shift in the bank lending channel' literature. The results, derived from a sample of … in the pass-through on the interest rate on current accounts depends mainly on banks' liability structure. Bank's size is …
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Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor);  … - 1999
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Policy issues and research opportunities in industrial organization : Fiftieth Anniversary Colloquium III
Fuchs, Victor R. (contributor) - 1972
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The technology factor in international trade : a conference of the Universities - National Bureau Committee for Economic Research
Vernon, Raymond (ed.) - 1970
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Technology, Unemployment, and Inflation
Mincer, Jacob - 2000
We explore the response of employment (unemployment) skill differentials to skill-biased shifts in demand touched off by the new and spreading technologies. We find that skill differentials in unemployment follow at least in part the same pattern as skill differentials in wages: They widen...
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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 the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
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