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Product variety and technical change
Frensch, Richard; Gaucaite-Wittich, Vitalija - 2006
Several trade-based measures of product variety have recently been used implicitly to represent states of technology, promoting long-run growth. In this paper, we define the state of technology as the range of specialised production processes and propose the variety of capital goods available...
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Does pharmaceutical price regulation affect the adoption of generic competition? Evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Varol, Nebibe; Costa-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair - 2011
adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to investigate how price regulations in the OECD affect the adoption of … heterogeneity. Ex-ante profit expectations result in faster adoption; both expected price and market size increase the probability … adoption across different specifications. Instead, evidence indicates that generic competitors follow a locally oriented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274736
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Explaining early adoption on new medicines: Regulation, innovation and scale
Varol, Nebibe; Costa-Font, Joan; McGuire, Alistair - 2011
Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a … statistically significant and robust price effect in the adoption of new pharmaceutical technologies; low-prices result in reduced … and slower adoption. Concentrated therapeutic subgroups, reflecting market crowding constitutes a significant barrier to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274894
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Schooling Family, Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276954
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Schooling, Family Background and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276955
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Opening the black box: Adoption of innovations in voluntary organisations
Nugroho, Yanuar - 2009
Despite the considerable attention paid to research into the adoption of technological innovations in government … (VOs). As a result, many things remain unknown: the patterns of uptake and adoption in VOs, the process of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277943
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The corporate digital divide: Determinants of internet adoption
Forman, Christopher - 2002
client/server networks had a higher likelihood of Internet adoption, however investments in proprietary or platform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279107
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Faculty perceptions about attributes and barriers impacting the adoption and diffusion of Web-Based Educational Technologies (WBETs) at the University of Cape Coast and the Univers...
Dooley, Kim E. (contributor); Lindner, James R. (contributor) - 2005
The purpose of this study was to determine faculty perceptions about factorsimpacting the adoption and diffusion of Web …¢Â€Â™ theory of adoption and diffusion, is a modified replication of a study by Li(2004), in the context of Ghana. Data were …, trialability, andobservability) impacting the adoption and diffusion of WBETs. The third was used tocollect data about ten barriers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464792
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Predictors of the likelihood of adoption among U.S. women by race and ethnicity
Poston, Dudley L. (contributor) - 2007
adoption among U.S. women based on the NationalSurvey of Family Growth, Cycle 6. The individual characteristics that have been … foundmost influential in determining adoption behavior in past studies were examined,including age at the time of the interview … ethnicityof a woman and her adoption behavior, which has received limited attention in theadoption literature.The results of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464924
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Business-to-business electronic marketplaces: membership and use drivers
Choobineh, Joobin (contributor) - 2003
Business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) are one of the most heralded developments in recent years. These marketplaces bring together businesses buying and selling goods and services in an online buying community. E-marketplaces promise to increase the efficiency and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465088