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Evaluating the Impact of Price Caps - Evidence from the European Roam-Like-At-Home Regulation

Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verzillo, Stefano; … - 2021

The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the Rest of the World as a control group. We find large and...

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Price Discrimination Bans on Dominant Firms

Bouckaert, Jan; Degryse, Hans; Dijk, Theon van - 2021

Competition authorities and regulatory agencies sometimes impose pricing restrictions on firms with substantial market power - the dominant firms. We analyze the welfare effects of a ban on behaviour-based price discrimination in a two-period setting where the market displays a competitive and a...

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Real Convergence, Price Level Convergence and Inflation Differentials in Europe

Égert, Balázs - 2021

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the factors that can cause price levels to diverge and which are at the root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors influencing market and non-market-based service, house...

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Medical Innovations and Ageing : A Health Economics Perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health …

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Medicare and the Rise of American Medical Patenting : The Economics of User-Driven Innovation

Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Olsen, Morten - 2021

Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of “innovating-bydoing,” whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners’ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model … program onmedical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program’saggregate effects. We …

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Price Regulation and Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2015

This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a theory model where the producer price is subject to bargaining between the brand-name producer and a distributor, we show that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially...

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Pricing the Pharmaceuticals when the Ability to Pay Differs: Taking Vertical Equity Seriously.

Kanniainen, Vesa; Laine, Juha; Linnosmaa, Ismo - 2019

A non-trivial fraction of people cannot afford to buy pharmaceutical products at unregulated market prices. Therefore, the paper analyzes the public insurance of the pharmaceutical products in terms of price controls and the socially optimal third-degree price discrimination. It characterizes...

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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act: A Synthetic Control Study

Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021

Fuel prices are commonly perceived to be excessively high, which regularly triggers political discussions about fuel price regulations. Consumers demand stricter fuel price regulations to provide transparency about the current price level and to protect them from sudden price fluctuations. Such...

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Gatekeeping in health care

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005

We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...

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Time Variation in Lifecycle Consumption and Income

Aksoy, Yunus - 2020

We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across different periods to identify lifecycle profiles masks...

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