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Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion during the Opioid Epidemic

Janssen, Aljoscha; Zhang, Xuan - 2020

This study investigates the role of retail pharmacy ownership in the opioid epidemic in the United States by comparing … orders at the pharmacy level between 2006 and 2012, we find that compared to chain pharmacies within the same ZIP code area … acquired by a chain, a previously independent pharmacy reduces dispensing of opioids by 31.7% and OxyContin by 43%. Using the …

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Competition and antibiotics prescription

Fogelberg, Sara; Karlsson, Jonas - 2012

The introduction of antibiotics as a medical treatment after World War II helped to dramatically increase life expectancy in the industrialized world. As a consequence of over-prescription the last decades ave however seen a sharp increase in prevalence of multi-resistant bacteria, disarming...

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Telemedicine and the welfare state: The Swedish experience

Blix, Mårten; Jeansson, Johanna - 2018

We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...

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The Effect of Water Filtration on Cholera Mortality

Knutsson, Daniel - 2020

There is debate among researchers regarding the importance of water filtration in reducing mortality during the epidemiological transition. However, there is limited research on how water filtration affected cholera mortality during the second half of the 19th century. Using historical...

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Entrepreneurial experimentation: A key function in entrepreneurial systems of innovation

Lindholm-Dahlstrand, Åsa; Andersson, Martin; Carlsson, Bo - 2017

There is a need for a conceptual approach that, with reference to explicit micro-level mechanisms and processes of industrial dynamics, articulates the role and function of entrepreneurial experimentation in innovation systems. This paper develops the concept of "entrepreneurial systems of...

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Threatening to buy: Private equity buyouts and antitrust policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2018

Private equity firms (PE firms) have become common owners of established firms in concentrated markets. We show that the threat of a PE acquisition can trigger incumbent mergers in an otherwise mergerstable industry. This can help antitrust authorities maximize consumer surplus because...

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The changed geopolitical map: Implications for business policy in a sustainable finance perspective

Ghauri, Pervez N.; Oxelheim, Lars; Randøy, Trond - 2023

The relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and governments has evolved over time, from a period of conflict after World War II to a more cooperative relationship in the 1970s and 1980s (Dunning, 1993). In the 1990s, many host governments sought foreign direct investments (FDIs) by...

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Global engagement, complex tasks, and the distribution of occupational employment

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2015

Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm's choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to...

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JAQ of all trades: Job mismatch, firm productivity and managerial quality

Corragio, Luca; Pagano, Marco; Scognamiglio, Annalisa; … - 2022

Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure (JAQ) by combining employer-employee administrative data with machine learning techniques. The proposed measure is...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2006

We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced product market profits, can increase the incentives for innovations. The reason is that the incentive to innovate depends on the acquisition price which, in turn, might increase...

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