of rates of innovation in chemotherapy and other treatment and diagnostic procedures are constructed from the MEDSTAT … have been during 1993-2001 in the absence of post-1992 chemotherapy innovation. The estimates indicate that chemotherapy … 1992-2001. Chemotherapy innovation accounted for smaller fractions of the increases in the 2-year and 3-year observed …

We perform an econometric analysis of the effect of new drug launches on longevity, using data from the IMS Health Drug … Launches database and the WHO Mortality Database. Under conservative assumptions, our estimates imply that the average annual …

Assessing the benefits of medical innovation—its impact on health outcomes—is as important as assessing the costs … that investigates the benefits and costs of another broad category of medical innovation—inpatient therapeutic procedure … innovation—using data on over one million hospital discharges. …

innovation increases with disease incidence. The elasticity of the number of chemotherapy regimens with respect to the number of … which suggests that the elasticity of innovation with respect to the expected price of drugs should be at least as great as … the elasticity of innovation with respect to expected market size (disease incidence). Then, the cross …

the International Accounting Standards Board will be studied. Setting financial reporting standards in the United States … International Financial Reporting Standards, maintained by the International Accounting Standards Board. After detailing the … Commission to International Financial Reporting Standards takes place. General differences between the standards are examined …

profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, there are few …

profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, there are few …

in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and …

in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and …