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To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D activity - measured by clinical trials - typically follows the 'law of diminishing efforts': i.e. the elasticity of R&D...
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We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals …
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What makes prescription drugs cost so much? The media and Congress say it is corporate greed, while pharmaceutical firms blame federal regulations and an expensive drug development process. This study focuses on R & D (R&D) expenditures at global pharmaceutical firms and explores the driving...
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This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a "hard" physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function...
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of a bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising … reconcile the conflicting evidence on the effect of negative vs. positive advertising, as the average impact may wash out when …
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This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …
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We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … Competitive Media Reporting. Exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on television causes statistically significant increases …
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Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most important yet daunting challenges facing societies in advanced economies. Can information campaigns decrease public opposition to immigration? This paper reports results from a...
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We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) - the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health - which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
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