Firm-level fixed investment expenses are analysed using a large panel of US manufacturing firms from 1971 to 2007. Integrating the user cost of capital, q and accelerator theories of investment to one econometric specification, we estimate the impacts of sales growth, cash flow, the cost of...

The paper analyses the impact of the labour costs and import costs on the prices of final goods in the USA during the 1950s-1990s period. The elasticity of the final prices with respect to the import and labour price indexes is a main determinant in the go through channel affecting the prices of...

Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies have been debated in published literature; however, these debates have not accounted for the differences in elasticity of demand between the public, private and cash paying markets. A mathematical model is presented that explores several plausible...