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Two Essays on the Role of Information in the Interaction between American Depository Receipts and Their Home Shares: Information Transfer and Issuer Decisions
Cheung, Oi Lin - 2008
American Depository Receipts (ADRs) represent shares of foreign firms that are issued and traded in the U.S. Since an ADR and its underlying shares represent ownership interest of the same firm, they should be perfect substitutes in a perfect market. However, market imperfections such as...
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An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.
Okeke, Edward Nwabugwu - 2009
foreign stock of Ghanaian physicians had reduced by between 10 and 13 percent and attribute this directly to the effect of the … ADHA program. In my third paper I examine the demand for preventive care. Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among … importance of demand-side factors on take-up of cervical screening. Using a randomized design, I test for the impact of price and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476584
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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume V, tape 1
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1988
During Peter Drucker's talk entitled "The Organization in Transition – Are the Traditional Functions Obsolete?" he discusses functions that remain centers of specialized knowledge and training, but cease to constitute the organizational base of the work itself. During his lecture, he talks...
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Change agents and the evolution of the United States pharmaceutical industry, 1920--1960
Lee, Jeho - 1996
This dissertation examines the evolution of the market and the firms in the context of an emerging innovative race in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The history shows the existence of two distinct industry regimes. Before 1940, the industry can best be characterized as a competitive regime in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439017
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"Your Life is Waiting!": Symbolic Meanings in Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Advertising
Grow, Jean; Park, Jin Seong; Han, Xiaoqi - 2006
This semiotic analysis demonstrates how pharmaceutical companies strategically frame depression within the hotly contested terrain of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising. The study tracks regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, relative to DTC advertising, including recent industry codes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484498
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Consumer construction of the agricultural biotechnology industry's legitimacy: An empirical test of values congruency as institutional and actional legitimacy formation
Mosley, Raul A - 2006
institutional legitimacy) and to market drug-producing crops called Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (an instance of actional legitimacy …. Consumers were more slightly more likely to acknowledge the industry's right to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals (r = .257 … as a big business entity and to market Plant Made Pharmaceuticals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430368
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Clinical and Cost Consequences of Non-Adherence in the End-Stage Renal Disease Population.
Chuang, Chien-Chia - 2011
Results from this study indicate that non-adherence in hemodialysis (HD) sessions marginally affects health care costs and does not significantly increase the likelihood of kidney transplantation failure. This dissertation explores the impacts of non-adherence in HD sessions on health care costs...
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Increasing Health Insurance Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage
Chernew, Michael; Cutler, David; Keenan, Patricia S. - 2005
Economics
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Demand Analysis, Economies of Scale and Price Differentiation in the German Food Retail Sector
Silke Maria Schmitz - 2007
Die Nachfrage nach Nahrungsmitteln unterliegt in Deutschland seit Jahrzehnten einem anhal-tenden Veränderungsprozess …-tieren Engelkurven zeigen, dass dieser Zusammenhang häufig nicht linear ist. Das Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) nach Banks …
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Crowding Out or Complementarity in the Telecommunications Market?
Ribeiro, Ricardo; Vareda, Joao - London School of Economics; Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2007
complements.We estimate a structural continuous-choice demand model following Pinkseet al. (2002), Pinkse and Slade (2004), and …
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