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We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase outpatient drugs at steep discounts. These discounts directly affect drug...
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We examine manufacturers' decisions of whether and how to offer their products for sale over the internet. Manufacturers that rely on promotion of their products by brick and mortar retailers must consider the possibility that internet retailers can free ride off of that promotional effort. This...
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This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...
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other tobacco control policies, such as advertising restrictions, prominent in tobacco control debates. Research addressing …
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Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates … assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no … effect of tobacco advertising on smoking. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important …
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The world's population is living longer but retiring earlier, and vast numbers of adults now spend as much as 1/3 of their lifetimes relying on public and private retirement benefits. Consequently, labor economists are interested in the forces driving retirement behavior, seeking to understand...
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advertising agency industry? This question is addressed by treating an advertising agency as a multiproduct firm. The firm … advertising messages which it creates on behalf of its clients. Evidence is presented indicating that the structure of demand and … costs in the advertising agency industry conforms to the conditions that MacDonald and Slivinski (1987) showed were required …
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effect of alcohol advertising on motor vehicle fatalities. The … concept of an industry level advertising response function is developed and other empirical issues in estimating the effects … of advertising are reviewed. The data set consists of quarterly observations, from 1986 to 1989, for 75 advertising …
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How important are economies of scale and scope in advertising agency operations? This paper reports an econometric … advertising it produces. These models are estimated and tested cross-sectionally utilizing data pertaining to the domestic … highly significant in the operations of US advertising agencies. We find that of the 12,000 establishments comprising the …
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networks and advertising on social networks in the dissemination of false news stories about childhood vaccines. We document … also find that after Facebook's ban on advertising by fake new sites, the sharing of fake news articles on Facebook fell by …
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