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Is Medicine an Ivory Tower? Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008

opportunities. The paper also provides new evidence on induced pharmaceutical innovation. In both cases we use the change in the … demographic structure of the market (measured by age structure and obesity prevalence) to test the induced innovation hypothesis … pharmaceutical innovation responds to aging- and obesity-induced changes in potential market size …

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When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services

Blank, Rebecca M. - 1999

The privatization of social services is being increasingly discussed. The social services market is characterized by multiple market failures, including informational asymmetries, agency problems, externalities, and distributional concerns. Consumers may care as much or more about quality of...

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Is the Japanese Distribution System Really Inefficient?

Ito, Takatoshi - 1990

This paper investigates the efficiency of the Japanese distribution system, measured by the distribution margin. Most of the discussions on the Japanese distribution system have so far relied on institutional descriptions and anecdotal evidence, failing to substantiate the case. The present...

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Social Finance

Kuchler, Theresa - 2020

We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...

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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets

Karlan, Dean - 2018

Two for-profit Philippine social enterprises, aiming to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by increasing microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool using randomized training content. Treated loan...

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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being : Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies

Herbst, Chris M. - 2010

In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment-related subsidies raise work levels among this group,...

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A Free Lunch in the Commons

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2009

We derive conditions under which cost-increasing measures - consistent with either regulatory constraints or fully expropriated taxes - can increase the profits of all agents active within a common-pool resource. This somewhat counterintuitive result is possible regardless of whether price is...

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What is the Business of Business?

Nilsson, Andreas - 2017

This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer, Michal - 2016

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...

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Antitrust and the Not-For-Profit Sector

Philipson, Tomas J. - 2001

monopolies intended to create incentives for innovation) stimulate innovation in the nonprofit sector only when they enable …

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