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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014
suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …
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The Evolution of Brand Preferences : Evidence from Consumer Migration
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2010
We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of … advertising. Heterogeneity in brand preferences explains 40 percent of geographic variation in market shares. These preferences … years in the past still exerting a significant effect on current consumption. Counterfactuals suggest that brand preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139281
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Brand Loyalty, Generic Entry and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals in the Quarter Century after the 1984 Waxman-Hatch Legislation
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2014
. Recent studies sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons focus only on brand prices and ignore substitution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069176
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Attracting Talent : Location Choices of Foreign-Born Phds in the Us
Grogger, Jeffrey - 2013
We use data from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates to examine the post-degree location choices of foreign-born students receiving PhDs from US universities in science and engineering. Over the period 1960 to 2008, 77% of foreign-born S&E PhDs state that they plan to stay in the United States....
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Choice of Country by the Foreign Born for Phd and Postdoctoral Study : a Sixteen-Country Perspective
Stephan, Paula E. - 2014
We analyze the decisions of foreign-born PhD and postdoctoral trainees to come to the United States vs. go to another country for training. Data are drawn from the GlobSci survey of scientists in sixteen countries working in four fields. We find that individuals come to the U.S. to train because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064540
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Scellato, Giuseppe - 2014
This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the GlobSci survey of authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields of science working in sixteen countries. Summary evidence suggests that migration plays an important role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064894
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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Borghans, Lex - 2010
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151394
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Intellectual Returnees as Drivers of Indigenous Innovation : Evidence from the Chinese Photovoltaic Industry
Luo, Siping - 2014
We offer new evidence on indigenous innovation and intellectual returnees by estimating the relationship between patenting by Chinese photovoltaic firms and the presence of corporate leaders with international experience. Our research approach combines data from three sources: the industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062551
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Foreign Counterfeiting of Status Goods
Grossman, Gene M.; Shapiro, Carl - 2021
merchandise of similar quality suggests that they value the prestige, or status, associated with brand-name trademarks … with a given label. But counterfeits allow consumers to unbundle the status and quality attributes of the brand …
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The Demand for Post-Patent Prescription Pharmaceuticals
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2021
This paper examines why physicians continue to prescribe trade- name drugs when less expensive generic substitutes are available. I utilize a data set on physicians, their patients, and the multi-source drugs prescribed to study the prescription habits of physicians in prescribing generic and...
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