We examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on the longevity of Australians during the period 1995-2003. Due to … the government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australia has much better data on drug utilization than most other …

We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the longevity of all hospital patients, i … private hospitals in Western Australia (WA) during the period 2000-2007. We can measure survival for a period as long as 8 … patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy of WA hospital patients by …

rates constitute evidence of success against cancer, using data from both the U.S. and Australia. When incidence growth is … reduced the unconditional mortality rate by about 15% in the U.S. between 1976 and 2002, and by about 15% in Australia between …

innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …