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Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Dubois, Pierre; Gandhi, Ashvin; Vasserman, Shoshana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
assesses the effects of a US international reference pricing policy that would cap prices in US markets by those offered in … simulate the counterfactual equilibrium under such international reference pricing rules, allowing firms to internalize the … cross-country externalities introduced by these policies. We find that in general, these policies would result in much …
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Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales : The Role of Structural Transformation
Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
National industrial concentration in the U.S. has risen sharply since the early 1980s, but there remains dispute over whether local geographic concentration has followed a similar trend. Using near population data from the Economic Censuses, we confirm and extend existing evidence on national...
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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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Information Flows, Organizational Structure, and Corporate Governance
Malenko, Nadya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This survey provides an overview of theoretical and empirical research on information flows in corporations. It highlights key frictions preventing effective information flows and discusses how organizational structure and corporate governance can alleviate these frictions, focusing on three...
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Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network : Evidence from Multinational Enterprises
Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper empirically examines the effects of financial crises on the organization of production of multinational …
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Product Repositioning by Merging Firms
Atalay, Enghin; Sorensen, Alan T.; Sullivan, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine merging firms' additions and removals of products for a sample of 66 mergers across a wide variety of consumer packaged goods markets. We find that mergers lead to a net reduction in the number of products offered by merging firms. Merging firms tend to both drop and add products at...
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Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence from Power Plants
Demirer, Mert; Karaduman, Ömer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
attributed to increased productive efficiency, while the rest comes from dynamic efficiency through changes in production …
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Sticky Prices, Coordination and Collusion
Driscoll, John C. - 1999
New Keynesian models of price setting under monopolistic competition involve two kinds of inefficiency: the price level is too high because firms ignore an aggregate demand externality, and when there are costs of changing prices, price stickiness may be an equilibrium response to changes in...
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Does Entry Remedy Collusion? Evidence from the Generic Prescription Drug Cartel
Starc, Amanda; Wollmann, Thomas G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Entry represents a fundamental threat to cartels engaged in price fixing. We study the extent and effect of this behavior in the largest price fixing case in US history, which involves generic drugmakers. To do so, we link information on the cartel's internal operations to regulatory filings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172185
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Making friends with your neighbors? Agglomeration and tacit collusion in the lodging industry
Gan, Li - 2011
Agglomeration is a location pattern frequently observed in service industries such as hotels. This paper empirically examines if agglomeration facilitates tacit collusion in the lodging industry using a quarterly dataset of hotels that operated in rural areas across Texas between 2003 and 2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461919