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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 …In September 1997, the anti-obesity drugs Pondimin and Redux, ingredients in the popular drug combination fen … benefits, or suffer negative spillovers, from the withdrawal of a competing drug. Our findings suggest that, while the …

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What Do Prosecutors Maximize? an Analysis of Drug Offenders and Concurrent Jurisdiction

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kessler, Daniel P.; Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2022

This paper presents a model of prosecutors' decision-making processes in which prosecutors (both federal and state) internalize some of the benefits of reducing crime, but also care about developing their own human capital. Since U.S. attorneys make their decision first, they have the...

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A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves, Net Foreign Assets, or Sovereign Wealth Funds

Carroll, Christopher D. - 2010

We model the motives for residents of a country to hold foreign assets, including the precautionary motive that has been omitted from much previous literature as intractable. Our model captures many of the principal insights from the existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive,...

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Patents, Appropriate Technology, and North-South Trade

Diwan, Ishac; Rodrik, Dani - 2021

We consider the differential incentives of the North and the South to provide patent protection to innovating firms in the North. The two regions are assumed to have a different distribution of preferences over the range of exploitable technologies. Due to the scarcity of R&D resources, the two...

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Y2k and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2021

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...

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Incomplete Contracts and the Product Cycle

Antras, Pol - 2021

-rights approach to the theory of the firm, the same force that creates product cycles, i.e., incomplete contracts, opens the door to a …

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Innovation, Imitation, and Intellectual Property Rights

Helpman, Elhanan - 2021

The debate between the North and the South about the enforcement of intellectual property rights in the South is examined within a dynamic general equilibrium framework in which the North innovates new products and the South imitates them. A welfare evaluation of a policy of tighter intellectual...

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Optimal Integration Strategies for the Multinational Firm

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Szeidl, Adam - 2022

We examine integration strategies of multinational firms that face a rich array of choices of international organization. Each firm in an industry must provide headquarter services from its home country, produce intermediate inputs, and assemble the intermediate goods into final products. Both...

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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

Antras, Pol; Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2022

question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents …

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North-South R&D Spillovers

Coe, David T.; Helpman, Elhanan; Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - 2022

We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any research and development themselves benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries. By trading with an industrial country that has large 'stocks of knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a...

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