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Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswa Nath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - CESifo - 2013
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The CEPA will eliminate tariff on goods that account for 94% of their two way trade over ten years and will boost bilateral trade and investment. Indian exports which were subject...
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Explaining Early Adoption on New Medicines: Regulation, Innovation and Scale
Varol, Nebibe; Costa-i-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair - CESifo - 2011
Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the probability of launch, controlling for competition,...
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Does Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Affect the Adoption of Generic Competition? Evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Varol, Nebibe; Costa-i-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair - CESifo - 2011
Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to...
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Reference Pricing, Competition, and Pharmaceutical Expenditures: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2010
We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using … a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub …-sample of off-patent products. First, we construct a vertical differentiation model to analyze the impact of regulation on …
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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Competition between Content Distributors in Two-Sided Markets
Bergh, Harald Nygard; Kind, Hans Jarle; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; … - CESifo - 2012
. Second, a TV channel might find it optimal to commit to not raising advertising revenue. Third, regulation of the advertising …
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On the Political Economy of Complexity
Nitzan, Shmuel; Procaccia, Uriel; Tzur, Joseph - CESifo - 2013
Article underscores the dark side of both phenomena by focusing on the anti-competitive features of regulation and reform and …
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Prices vs. Quantities with Endogenous Cost Structure
Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - CESifo - 2014
Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …
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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty
Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - CESifo - 2013
We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of …
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Investment in Broadband Infrastructure Under Local Deregulation: Evidence from the U.K. Broadband Market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
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