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Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …
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Precision medicines - therapies that rely on the use of genetic, epigenetic, and protein biomarkers - create a better match between patients with specific disease subtypes and medications that are more effective for those patients. This heterogeneity in response has implications for the decision...
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This paper explores the economic incentives for medical procedure innovation. Using a proprietary dataset on billing … code applications for emerging medical procedures, we highlight two mechanisms that could hinder innovation. First, the … administrative hurdle of securing permanent, reimbursable billing codes substantially delays innovation diffusion. We find that …
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are sufficiently complementary to inelastically supplied genius, innovation augmenting either of the first two factors can …
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Pharmaceutical innovation policy involves managing a tradeoff between high prices for new products in the short … pharmaceuticals, suggesting low(er) price markets may have different dynamics with respect to innovation policy …
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The financial motivation to earn advertising revenue by spreading misinformation has been widely conjectured to be among the main reasons misinformation continues to be prevalent online. Research aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation has so far focused on user-level interventions with...
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Information flows, and thus information technology (IT) are central to the structure of firms and markets. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, we provide firm-level evidence that increases in IT intensity are associated with increases in firm size and concentration in both employment and...
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As more and more activities in the economy become digitized, analytics and data-driven decision-making (DDD) are becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) compared to large firms, and reliable causal estimates of the...
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venture capital funding, recent product and process innovation, and growth-oriented business strategies. Early adoption was …
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