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Do Equity Financing Cycles Matter? Evidence from Biotechnology Alliances
Lerner, Josh - 2000
While the variability of public equity financing has been long recognized, its impact on firms has attracted little empirical scrutiny. This paper examines one setting where theory suggests that variations in financing conditions should matter, alliances between small R&D firms and major...
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Productivity in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology R&D : The Role of Experience and Alliances
Danzon, Patricia Munch - 2003
Using data on over 900 firms for the period 1988-2000, we estimate the effect on phase-specific biotech and pharmaceutical R&D success rates of a firm's overall experience, its experience in the relevant therapeutic category; the diversification of its experience, and alliances with large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469083
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The Control of Strategic Alliances : An Empirical Analysis of Biotechnology Collaborations
Lerner, Josh - 1997
In this paper, we examine the determinants of control rights in technology strategic alliances between biotechnology firms and pharmaceutical corporations, as well as with other biotechnology firms. We undertake three clinical studies and an empirical analysis of 200 contracts. Consistent with...
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Fundamentals or Population Dynamics and the Geographic Distribution of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises, 1976-1989
Zucker, Lynne G. - 1998
Population ecology models are elegant in form and adequate in describing aggregate data, but poor in telling stories and predicting the location of growth. Fundamentals models emphasizing the variables central to resource mobilization, such as intellectual human capital, can predict where and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472394
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Intellectual Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises
Zucker, Lynne G. - 1994
We examine the relationship between the intellectual capital of scientists making frontier discoveries, the presence of great university bioscience programs, the presence of venture capital firms, other economic variables, and the founding of U.S. biotechnology enterprises during 1976-1989....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474283
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Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018
Schwandt, Hannes; Currie, Janet M.; Bär, Marlies; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Inequalities in life expectancy are starker in the U.S. than in Europe. In 1990 White Americans and Europeans in rich … comparison with Europe suggests that mortality rates of both Black and White Americans could fall much further across all ages …
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European Recessions and Native American Conflict
Angel, Marco del; Hess, Gregory D.; Weidenmier, Marc D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
economic conditions in Europe from 1869 to 1890. We hypothesize that contractions in economic activity pushed many Europeans to …
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The Female Happiness Paradox
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172192
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Productivity, Wages, and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe
Gordon, Robert J. - 1986
. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … primary theme of the paper is that differences between Europe and the U. S. have been substantially exaggerated in recent work …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits …
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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection
Cumby, Robert E. - 1984
rates has been widespread in the analyses by economic policymakers both in Europe and in the United States. In this paper we … been raised by the recent policy debates in Europe and the United States: Have ex ante real rates in the United States and … Europe been high during recent years? Has there been a link between U.S. real rates and those in other countries? Can this …
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