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Phlippen, Sandra; Vermeersch, An - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of …

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Phlippen, Sandra; Knaap, Bert van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Policy makers spend large amounts of public resources on the foundation of science parks and other forms of geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and innovation is the assumption that co-located firms...

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Radical Innovation and Network Evolution

Phlippen, Sandra; Riccaboni, Massimo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network structures. We use longitudinal data of interfirm R&D collaborations in the biopharmaceutical industry in which a new technological regime is established. Our findings suggest...

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Health Expenditure Growth: Looking beyond the Average through Decomposition of the Full Distribution

Meijer, Claudine de; Koopmanschap, Marc; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

largest contribution of all determinants to increased spending not only on hospital care but also on pharmaceuticals …

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Free Medicines thanks to Retirement: Moral Hazard and Hospitalization Offsets in an NHS

Puig-Junoy, Jaume; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Casado-Marin, David - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This paper examines the impact of coinsurance exemption for prescription medicines applied to elderly individuals in Spain after retirement. To evaluate this coinsurance change we use a rich administrative dataset that links pharmaceutical consumption and hospital discharge records for the full...

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The Political Economy of Financial Fragility

Feijen, Erik; Perotti, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

followed by financial crises. We explain this variation as the outcome of lobbying interests capturing the reform process. Even … by more leveraged entrepreneurs, protecting more established producers. As a result, lobbying may deliberately worsen …

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Bank Ownership and Financial Stability

Perotti, Enrico; Vorage, Marcel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions …

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The Impact of Lobbying on the Allocation of Political Authority

Falconieri, Sonia - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a … of the feasible policies.In this context, we investigate the impact of lobbying on the optimalallocation of political … as the choicebetween two alternative legislative rules: open versus closed rule.We show that, in presence of lobbying …

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Lobbying of Firms by Voters

Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...

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