novel types of shop (including self-service), relations between large and small firms in innovation and diffusion, change of …

firms’ efficiency are not adopted. This paper explains these observations by emphasizing that a new technology positively … the new technology. If the costs of adoption for workers exceed the benefits, they will aim at keeping the old technology … favours economic growth as it increases the share of the rent associated with the new technology that is being captured by the …

are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).The empirical analysis shows that health … is multi-dimensional, in the sense that different health indicators have their own significant impact on individuals …' participation decisions.Health effects differ markedly between countries.A counterfactual exercise shows that improved health …

novel types of shop (including self-service), relations between large and small firms in innovation and diffusion, change of …

progress in firms is driven by research aimed at improving the production technology and by assimilation of ideas or principles … present outside the firm. A new general purpose technology like the IT revolution generates an initial slowdown in economic …

residual profits, utilizes an uncertain technology and hires a worker who may only be partially isolated from uncertainty … endogenous, depending on both the entrepreneur's prior beliefs about the profitability of the technology, as well as the worker …'s willingness to work with the uncertain technology.The general equilibrium setting allows us to explore the impact of innovation on …

This paper introduces a new way to measure competition based on firms' profits.Within a general model, we derive …

Abstract: In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one … health outcome - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient …

Abstract: We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the … release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) -the largest randomized controlled trial of women …'s health- which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone Replacement Therapy increases the risk of heart attacks, stroke …