We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals … analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …

domestic products) reference price system. We find that while our estimated consumer compensating variation is small, the …

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …

at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price …

We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative … IP, launches and productivity, controlling for media exposure and firm heterogeneity. Launch activity is associated with … higher SME productivity, especially in the service sector. High-quality launches and medium-size firms help drive this result. …

This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a … firm productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find … that a larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence … and labor market power. Reducing tariffs on intermediate inputs has increased a firm's price-cost markup but decreased the …