New technological applications are usually expected to increase the health care costs. But they can also spawn cost savings in the long run, for example, when making time-consuming diagnostic methods more efficient and facilitating targeted therapy. This study analyses how the implementation of...

Aim of this paper is to estimate price-cost margin in the Finnish pharmaceutical industry. The estimation is based on the method developed by Hall (1988), who shows that, under constant returns to scale, the total factor productivity depends on the growth rate of output-capital ratio if the...

The aim of this paper is to compare the price-cost margins in the pharmaceutical industry in Finland and USA. We employ data on the Finnish and the US pharmaceutical industry. The estimation is theoretically based on a modification of the conventional growth models and its extensions under...

Raportissa katsastetaan pääomatulojen ja yritystulojen kannustinvaikutukset alan kirjallisuuden ja tutkimuksen valossa. Kassavirtavero, ACE-vero ja kypsien yritysten jaetulle voitolla lankeava vero tunnetaan investointipäätösten suhteen neutraaliksi. Vähemmälle huomiolle on kuitenkin...