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In this paper, we give a new insight on the relationship between the patients' co-payment for buying pharmaceuticals and the price of a patented pharmaceutical. We consider that the price of a pharmaceutical is the outcome of a negotiation between a health authority and a pharmaceutical monopoly...

The research aims at explaining stock performance of processing companies as a function of commodity performance on commodity markets. The results show that stock prices of food companies do not significantly depend on agricultural market prices. So, risks of agricultural market price volatility...

The importance of fish size for price per kilo is studied using an inverse demand approach. Prices per kilo in different size categories of the same species differ significantly. This means that the average price for a species may change due to e.g., high-grading, growth overfishing or a...

The case for a competitive market operated by a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) and a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) is analysed in the paper. The resource that is leased by the MNO to the MVNO is spectrum. The MNO and the MVNO compete a la Bertrand ' posting subscription prices and the...