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This paper shows that the move to offset printing from letterpress in the U.S. daily newspaper publishing industry was determined, in part, by the structure of the local market. Although in monopoly markets, low circulation papers were quicker to adopt than high circulation papers, the ranking...
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in the United States, we specify a flexible model to capture competition between a plant in a state with carbon pricing …
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We establish four facts concerning competition among U.S. generic drug suppliers, using IQVIA's National Sales … cohorts; (iii) the extent of competition is greatest for the oldest molform cohorts and is smallest for the youngest molform … cohorts. With a median of one competitor, the extent of competition in the youngest molform cohort is very limited; and (iv …
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, quality competition came more in the form of costs that vary with hotel size, and less in the form of costs that are fixed …
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innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … rate, consistent with increased intellectual property competition …
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The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate students, the broadening of access to universities, and the development of military research and high technology industry. Since the 1980s, however, growth of scientific research in...
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Many goods and services can be readily provided through a series of unconnected transactions, but in health care close coordination over time and within care episodes improves both health outcomes and efficiency. Close coordination is problematic in the US health care system because the...
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A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how much trade policy affects firms'...
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This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...
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