variables of foreign presence. The study found that the presence of foreign firms per se may not be important for productivity …

In 1970 the USA spent 7% of its GNP on healthcare, in 200716%. Whereas the OECD average per capita expenditure on … healthcare in 2007 was $2,964, the USA spent $7,290. Yet in that same period, the health of America’s citizens relative to those … up around healthcare in the USA. Because the magnitude of the relative decline in healthcare in the USA is poorly …

periods characterized by sustainable linear trends in the difference between the headline consumer price index (CPI) and the … core CPI in the USA. Then we revealed similar behavior in the differences between the CPI and indices of various consumer … the evolution of motor fuel price (a subcategory of the consumer price index of transportation) relative to the core CPI …

In April 2009, we introduced a model representing the evolution of motor fuel price (a subcategory of the consumer … price index of transportation) relative to the overall CPI as a linear function of time. Under our framework, all price … deviations from the linear trend are transient and the price must promptly return to the trend. Specifically, the model predicted …

pharmaceuticals. Consequently, the price gap and other EU-specific factors have created a great environment for parallel trades. The … pharmaceuticals and to reveal the impacts of parallel trades in the European Union and how they may affect markets in the future. The … author has confined this study to the price regulations inside the EU before the enlargement in 2004. …

The variation in the degree of price regulation in the property-liability insurance market in Canada varies across time … and space, creating an opportunity to test a recurring theory in regulatory economics: that price regulated firms have … higher levels of financial leverage. Using an instrumental variable for the stringency of price-regulation, this paper …

expected bankruptcy costs, in order to mitigate the severity of binding price ceilings. Although financial leverage can be … paper uses an instrumental variable for price regulation with a maximum-likelihood Heckman estimation method over panel data … for Canadian property-liability insurers to extract the impact that price regulation has on the financial leverage of …

In January 2011, a price regulation was established in the Austrian gasoline market which prohibits firms from raising … purchase due to expected price savings, but find it inconvenient to do so, a friction is introduced that decreases net consumer …