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Bundling Among Rivals : A Case of Pharmaceutical Cocktails
Lucarelli, Claudio - 2010
We empirically analyze the welfare effects of cross-firm bundling in the pharmaceutical industry. Physicians often treat patients with "cocktail" regimens that combine two or more drugs. Firms cannot price discriminate because each drug is produced by a different firm and a physician creates the...
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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions
Kravis, Irving B. - 1983
A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …
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On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countriesy
Bento, Pedro - 2018
of sources. Establishments are larger in manufacturing than in services, and in each sector they are larger in richer …
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : a Study of New Zealand Firms
Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015
Operation Survey, we find that receiving a grant almost doubles the probability that a firm introduces new goods and services to …
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The Link Between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014
unappreciated is that accelerated manufacturing growth has also been accompanied by accelerated services growth. Using firm … productivity in services, especially large urban firms and in service sectors whose output is used as a manufacturing input …
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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Who Gains from Corporate Tax Cuts?
Cloyne, James; Kurt, Ezgi; Surico, Paolo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Goods producers increase their capital expenditure and employment in response to a cut in marginal corporate income tax rates or an increase in investment tax credits. In contrast, companies in the service sector mostly use any tax windfall to increase dividend payouts. We base our conclusions...
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Structural Change Within versus Across Firms : Evidence from the United States
Ding, Xiang; Fort, Teresa C.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, manufacturing firms with auxiliary employment pivot towards services in response to a plausibly exogenous decline in their physical …
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