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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer M. - 2013
Household investment in preventative health products is low in developing countries even though benefits from these products are very high. What interventions most effectively stimulate demand? In this paper, we experimentally estimate demand curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459350
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains
Steinbach, Sandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature … for a balanced panel of 159 countries for 2001 to 2017. I study the relationship for 781 agricultural and food products … a primary source of international risk exposure for global food supply chains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616612
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Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK : Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference?
Banks, James - 2016
In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in spite of income paths being similar. We explore several possible causes, including different employment paths, housing ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status,...
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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014
similar non-chefs. We extend our analysis to cover 50 retail health categories and 241 food and drink categories. The results …, and a much smaller share for most food and drink products. We tie our estimates together using a stylized model of demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458372
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Moral NIMBY-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada
Lacetera, Nicola - 2018
The growing demand for plasma, especially for the manufacture of therapeutic products, prompts discussions on the merits of different procurement systems. We conducted a randomized survey experiment with a representative sample of 826 Canadian residents to assess attitudes toward legalizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453145
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The Effects of Information, Social and Economic Incentives on Voluntary Undirected Blood Donations : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Argentina
Iajya, Victor - 2012
In many low- and middle-income countries blood donations per capita are substantially lower than in advanced economies. In these countries blood supply is mostly collected through donations by relatives and friends of individuals needing transfusions or to replace blood used in emergencies. The...
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Product Liability Litigation and Innovation : Evidence from Medical Devices
Galasso, Alberto; Luo, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the relationship between product liability litigation and innovation by systematically combining data on product liability lawsuits with data on new product introductions in a panel dataset of leading medical device firms. We first document a decline in the propensity to introduce new...
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Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation : Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents
Clemens, Jeffrey - 2020
We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how procurement policy affects the cost, quality, and quantity of medical innovation. Analyzing whether inventions emphasize cost and/or quality requires generating new data. We do this by first hand-coding the economic traits...
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When does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants
Galasso, Alberto - 2018
Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by US suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical implants. Difference-in-differences...
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