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The Competitive Effects of Drug Withdrawals
Cawley, John - 2014
how consumers respond to drug withdrawals. In theory, remaining drugs in the therapeutic class could enjoy competitive …
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Handbook on experimental economics and the environment
List, John A. (ed.); Price, Michael Keith (ed.) - 2013
'Until not much more than 20 years ago, economists frequently lamented the fact that they were limited in their empirical analyses to statistical assessments of market behavior, because controlled economic experiments were (thought to be) infeasible, unethical, or both. Much has changed in the...
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Side Effects of Competition : The Role of Advertising and Promotion in Pharmaceutical Markets
David, Guy - 2011
The extent of pharmaceutical advertising and promotion can be characterized by a balancing act between profitable demand expansions and potentially unfavorable subsequent regulatory actions. However, this balance also depends on the nature of competition (e.g. monopoly versus oligopoly). In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123314
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Recent developments in the economics of sport
Andreff, Wladimir - 2011
Events: Theory and Practice, Journal of Sports Economics, 8 (2), 165-182. -- Barros C.P. (2006), Evaluating Sport Events at …. Lang (2008), Overinvestment in Team Sports Leagues: A Contest Theory Model, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 55 (3 …-239. -- Torgler B. (2004), The Economics of the FIFA Football World Cup, Kyklos, 57 (2), 287-300. -- Vrooman J. (2007), Theory of the …
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The economics of sports betting
Rodríguez Rivero, P.D. (ed.); Humphreys, Brad R. (ed.);  … - 2017
Contents: 1. Consumer spending on spectator sports, physical activity, and sports betting: evidence from Canada. / Brad Humphreys, Jane Ruseski and Jie Yang -- 2. Should gambling markets be privatized? An examination of state lotteries in the United States. / Kent Grote and Victor A. Matheson --...
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International handbook on the economics of mega sporting events
Maennig, Wolfgang (ed.); Zimbalist, Andrew S. (ed.) - 2012
From the Olympics to the World Cup, mega sporting events are a source of enjoyment for tens of thousands of people, but can also be a source of intense debate and controversy. This insightful Handbook addresses a number of central questions, including: How are host cities selected and under what...
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Handbook on the economics of professional football
Goddard, John A. (ed.) - 2014
In this comprehensive Handbook, John Goddard and Peter Sloane present a collection of analytical contributions by internationally regarded scholars in the field, which extensively examine the many economic challenges facing the world's most popular team sport. The Handbook is naturally divided...
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The Design of Trade Agreements
Bagwell, Kyle - 2016
What does economics have to say about the design of international trade agreements? We review a literature on this question, providing detailed coverage on three key design features of the GATT/WTO: reciprocity, nondiscrimination as embodied in the MFN principle, and tariff bindings and binding...
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Does Price Reveal Poor-Quality Drugs? Evidence from 17 Countries
Bate, Roger - 2011
Focusing on 8 drug types on the WHO-approved medicine list, we constructed an original dataset of 899 drug samples from 17 low- and median-income countries and tested them for visual appearance, disintegration, and analyzed their ingredients by chromatography and spectrometry. Fifteen percent of...
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Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets : Effects of Income, Competition and Procurement
Danzon, Patricia M. - 2011
This paper analyzes determinants of ex-manufacturer prices for originator and generic drugs across a large sample of countries. We focus on drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in middle and low income countries (MLICs), with robustness checks to other therapeutic categories and other...
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