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Do Cost-Sharing and Entry Deregulation Curb Pharmaceutical Innovation?

Grossmann, Volker - 2011

deregulation may lead to quality-improvements of pharmaceuticals, despite reducing price-setting power of pharmaceutical companies …

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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training : A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021

contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of … deregulation increases training incidence …

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Market Access through Bound Tariffs

Sala, Davide - 2009

WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...

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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare : A Policy Experiment

Liu, An-Hsiang - 2013

This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...

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Does Long-Term Care Subsidisation Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalisations?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

hospital admissions (both on the internal and external margin) and its duration or length of stay (LOS). We find robust … intense, among beneficiaries of publicly funded home care (amounting to 11% of total hospital costs), and among regions …

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A Fair Price for Energy? Ownership versus Market Opening in the EU15

Fiorio, Carlo V. - 2010

In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...

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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries

Egger, Hartmut - 2011

setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …

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Racial/Ethnic and Education-Related Disparities in Control of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease Among Diabetics

Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021

Objectives: To estimate racial/ethnic and education-related disparities and examine trends in uncontrolled cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors among adults with diabetes. Methods: The analysis samples include adults aged 20 and over from NHANES III, 1988-1994 and NHANES 1999-2008 who self-report...

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Vertical Licensing, Input Pricing, and Entry

Bakaouka, Elpiniki - 2017

We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...

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Tax Evasion in a Cournot Oligopoly with Endogenous Entry

Goerke, Laszlo - 2017

If an additional competitor reduces output per firm in a homogenous Cournot-oligopoly, market entry will be excessive. Taxes can correct the so-called business stealing externality. We investigate how evading a tax on operating profits affects the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises...

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