We compare the short-run welfare effects of two types of settlement agreements, quot;reverse paymentsquot; of the brand-name drug makers to generic producers not to enter the market and delayed entry when these payments are restricted both under the entry injunction (imposed by the Hatch-Waxman...

Die Autorin analysiert in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Auswirkungen von Überlasten im Bereich Verkehrs-Infrastrukturen und konzipiert einen ordnungspolitischen Maßnahmenkatalog für eine effizientere Nutzung dieser Fazilitäten. Der ökonomische Basisvorschlag besteht in der Implementierung des...

This paper discusses a number of issues centred around the evaluation of the benefits and costs of transport. It is argued that, for various reasons, transport cannot be treated as an ‘ordinary’ economic sector, and in the paper the policy implications of a number of the sector’s...

Theoretical reasoning shows that spatial effects of transport cost reductions may crucially depend on market structures in the tradables sector (degree of market power, strength of economies of scale, free or no free entry). The aim of this paper is to compare empirically the effects of...