important and R&D-intensive industries: Semiconductors and Pharmaceuticals. I employ two measures of a firm's R&D performance … size in Pharmaceuticals, but there is no relationship between patent quality and firm size in Semiconductors. Citations …

optimal. When eradication is feasible, the optimal program requires either a low vaccination rate or eradication. A high … vaccination rate is never optimal. Under special conditions, the results are especially stark: the optimal policy is either not to …

private university allows us to estimate how peer effects influence health beliefs and vaccination choices. Our results … positive peer effects on individuals' vaccination decisions. A student becomes up to 8.3 percentage points more likely to get … inoculation clinics suggests that students coordinate their vaccination decisions with their friends. …

hospitalisation and fatality rates of vaccination and population immunity due to past infection: the latter was the most signiÖcant … factor driving both trends, while the vaccination rate also had a signiÖcant short run e§ect on the fatality rate. We also …

efficiency in technology-intensive industries. Various sectors, including pharmaceuticals, ICT, aerospace, and defence, heavily …