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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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Food Prices and Population Health in Developing Countries: An Investigation of the Effects of the Food Crisis Using a Panel Analysis
Lee, Suejin; Lim, Jae-Young; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Cyn-Young - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013
High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a...
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Trends Regarding The Level Of The Processing, Assortment Structure And The Quality Of The Food Products
Sperdea, Nataliţa Maria; Mangra, Mădălina Giorgiana; … - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 10 (2010) 2, pp. 331-340
Foods differ qualitatively depending on the range part. Commodity classification of food products can provide us important information about their composition, their inclusion in one group or another being made according to their origin (vegetable origin, animal origin or mixed), chemical...
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for potential endogeneity of politician gender and the...
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for potential endogeneity of politician gender and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415737
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Improving China's Health Care System
Herd, Richard; Hu, Yu-Wei; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the reduction in some traditional infectious diseases. However, death rates from chronic diseases have been on the rise, not least owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating...
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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 …
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Pricing and Reimbursement of Prescription Drugs in German Social Health Insurance
Greß, Stefan; Wasem, Jürgen; Niebuhr, Dea - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 2, pp. 39-47
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