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Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets : A Revealed Preference Approach using the Shale Revolution
Cullen, Joseph A. - 2014
This paper examines how much carbon emissions from the electricity industry would decrease in response to a carbon price. We show how both carbon prices and cheap natural gas reduce, in a nearly identical manner, the historic cost advantage of coal-fired power plants. The shale revolution has...
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Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital : Canadian Evidence
Brander, James A. - 2008
public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods …, including value-creation, as measured by the likelihood and size of IPOs and M&As, and innovation, as measured by patents. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464618
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The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Premature Cancer Mortality in Canada, 2000-2011
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2015
Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation …The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in …
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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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Biotech-Pharmaceutical Alliances as a Signal of Asset and Firm Quality
Nicholson, Sean - 2002
Biotechnology companies rely heavily on alliances with pharmaceutical companies to finance their research and development expenditures, and pharmaceutical firms rely heavily on alliances to supplement their internal research and development. Previous studies suggest that asymmetric information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469706
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An Empirical Investigation of the Competitive Effects of Domestic Airline Alliances
Bamberger, Gustavo E. - 2001
In this paper, we investigate empirically the effect of two recent domestic airline alliances. We find that both alliances benefited consumers - average fares fell and total traffic increased after the creation of the alliances on those city pairs affected by the alliances. We also find that...
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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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Missing Discussions : Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition
Gitmez, A. Arda; Robinson, James A.; Shadmehr, Mehdi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Institutional constraints to counter potential abuses in the use of political power have been viewed as essential to well functioning political institutions and good public policy outcomes in the Western World since the time of ancient Greece. A sophisticated intellectual tradition emerged to...
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Fighting Climate Change : International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Fabre, Adrien; Kruse, Tobias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change and climate policies. We show that, across countries, support for climate policies hinges on three key perceptions...
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Policy Diffusion Through Elections
Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Watanabe, Yasutora - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Staggered difference-in-differences designs are pervasive in policy evaluations but little is known about the mechanisms of policy diffusion: How and why do such policies spread across jurisdictions? In this study, we highlight the role of elections in policy diffusion in settings where...
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