This paper studies price determination in pharmaceutical markets using data for 25 countries, six years and a comprehensive list of products from the MIDAS IMS database. We show that market power and the quality of the product has a significantly positive impact of prices. The nationality of the...

An endogenous switching model of ex ante wage changes under indexed and nonindexed settlements is estimated for the Spanish manufacturing sector using collective bargaining firm data for the 1984-91 period. The likelihood of indexing the settlement is higher for nationwide unions than for other...

This article analyzes wage changes with an unbalanced panel from the Spanish Collective Bargaining in Large Firms survey. Central to the analysis are the joint determination of strike and wage outcomes and, in particular, the estimation of the slope of the wage concession curve. The author...

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