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Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution
Richardson, Gary - 2008
. Conspicuous characteristics fulfilled many of the functions that patents, trademarks, and brand names do today. The words that … referred to products with conspicuous characteristics served as brand names in the Middle Ages. Data drawn from an array of …
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How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?
Dafny, Leemore S.; Ho, Katherine; Kong, Edward - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand …
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Millennials and the Take-Off of Craft Brands : Preference Formation in the U.S. Beer Industry
Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dube, Jean-Pierre H.; Joo, Joonhwi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We conduct an empirical case study of the U.S. beer industry to analyze the disruptive effects of locally-manufactured, craft brands on market structure, an increasingly common phenomenon in CPG industries typically attributed to the emerging generation of adult Millennial consumers. We document...
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Quantifying Brand Loyalty : Evidence from the Cigarette Market
DeCicca, Philip; Kenkel, Donald Scott; Liu, Feng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Reservations. The regime change represents a unique opportunity to quantify brand loyalty because it almost doubled the price of … premium-brand cigarettes, while Native brands were still untaxed. We use data from two different sources--the New York State … three-quarters remained brand loyal …
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An Anatomy of U.S. Firms Seeking Trademark Registration
Dinlersoz, Emin M. - 2018
This paper reports on the construction of a new dataset that combines data on trademark applications and registrations from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with data on firms from the U.S. Census Bureau. The resulting dataset allows tracking of various activity related to trademark use and...
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The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the US
Burke, Marshall - 2020
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from fire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal burden of wildfire in the US. We estimate that nearly...
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Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Wildfire Smoke
Burke, Marshall; Heft-Neal, Sam; Li, Jessica; Driscoll, Anne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The impacts of environmental change on human outcomes often depend on local exposures and behavioral responses that are challenging to observe with traditional administrative or sensor data. We show how data from private pollution sensors, cell phones, social media posts, and internet search...
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Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters : The Case of U.S. Wildfires
Baylis, Patrick W.; Boomhower, Judson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective technologies and behaviors appears limited by myopia, externalities, and other factors. One response to such frictions is to mandate adaptive investment. We measure the effect of...
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Where There's Smoking, There's Fire : The Effects of Smoking Policies on the Incidence of Fires in the United States
Markowitz, Sara - 2010
Fires and burns are among the leading causes of unintentional death in the U.S. Most of these deaths occur in residences, and cigarettes are a primary cause. In this paper, I explore the relationship between smoking, cigarette policies, and fires. As fewer people smoke, there are less...
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Behavior mediates the health effects of extreme wildfire smoke events
Heft-Neal, Sam; Gould, Carlos F.; Childs, Marissa; … - 2023
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