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Will Plain Packaging Reduce Cigarette Consumption?
Clarke, Harry; Prentice, David - Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business … - 2012
evidence. Without offsetting tax increases the legislation will plausibly reduce prices but significant entry into the industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010576066
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Regulation of an Open Access Essential Facility
Gautier, Axel; Mitra, Manipushpak - University of Bonn, Germany - 2003
competitor. We show that this mechanism is welfare improving but it generates inefficient entry. That is a more efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968359
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Can Price Discrimination be Bad for Firms and Good for All Consumers? A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-Market Price Constraints with Entry and Product Differentiation
Azar, Ofer H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and … then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without … price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price discrimination encourages more entry and tends to reduce prices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836325
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Product differentiation and efficiencies in the retail banking industry
Dai, Mian; Yuan, Yuan - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 12, pp. 4907-4919
We empirically quantify the welfare implications of bank entry in the United States between 2000 and 2008. We use a … market outcomes. We find no evidence for under- or over-entry. Compared with the socially efficient outcome, there is a mild … significantly improves welfare under free entry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709493
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Regional patterns of food safety in China: What can we learn from media data?
Holtkamp, Nicholas; Liu, Peng; McGuire, William - In: China Economic Review 30 (2014) C, pp. 459-468
China's food safety system is characterized by widespread under-enforcement of regulations punctuated by high-profile food safety scandals. While there has been a wave of public and scholarly interest, official data on food safety are scarce, and some fundamental questions remain unanswered. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010931687
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THE SERBIAN FUNCTIONAL FOOD MARKET: DOES REGULATION MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
Žaklina, Stojanović; Radmila, Dragutinović-Mitrović - In: Economic Annals 57 (2012) 193, pp. 53-70
This paper focuses on empirical analysis of the Serbian functional food market and its comparison with those in other Western Balkan countries (WBC). The purpose is to examine whether the existence of regulation, as an institutional precondition, makes a difference on the operating of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011039120
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Multimarket Contact in Pharmaceutical Markets
Coronado, Javier; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Marín, Pedro L. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of multimarket contact on the behavior of pharmaceutical firms controlling for different levels of regulatory constraints using IMS MIDAS database. Theoretically, firms that meet in several markets are expected to be capable of sustaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547494
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Multimarket contact in pharmaceutical markets
Coronado, Javier; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Marín, Pedro L. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007
We analyze the effect of multimarket contact on the pricing behavior of pharmaceutical firms controlling for different levels of regulatory constraints using the IMS MIDAS database for the industry. Theoretically, under product differentiation, firms may find it profitable to allocate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005772572
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Is It Possible to Have Cheaper Drugs and Preserve the Incentive to Innovate: Reforming the Drug Approval Process According to Market Principles
Sauer, Corinne; Sauer, Robert - Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS) - 2005
, obtained through price control legislation and legislation that eases the entry of generic products into the market, has caused …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995401
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Multimarket Contact in Pharmaceutical Markets
Coronado, Javier; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Marín, Pedro L. - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of multimarket contact on the behavior of pharmaceutical firms controlling for different levels of regulatory constraints using IMS MIDAS database. Theoretically, firms that meet in several markets are expected to be capable of sustaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168475