What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district-by-cohort variation in exposure to the program. The results indicate...

In the mid-1980s, the Indian government embarked on one of the largest childhood immunization programs-called "Universal Immunization Program" (UIP)in order to reduce the high mortality and morbidity among children. I examine the effect of this immunization program on child mortality and...

In this paper we assess the current relevance of different sources of international competitiveness. Relative prices, labor costs, and productivity are evaluated as determinants of a country's international competitiveness at the industry level. Working with detailed data on unit values and with...

A generalization of the log-logistic distribution called exponentiated log-logistic distribution (in lines of exponentiated Weibull distribution suggested by Mudholkar and Srivastava [Technometrics 37: 436-445, 1995]) is considered. In this paper the operating characteristic for a sampling plan...

There has been a wide-spread misconception based on the imprecise wording of Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) that the protection of business methods by patents is prohibited in Europe. This paper investigates the legal framework set by patent laws with respect to the...

Der Beitrag diskutiert die Anwendung des im Rahmen der Unternehmensbewertung häufig angewandten Gordon/Shapiro-Modells bei Vorliegen von Inflation sowie persönlichen Steuern. Gezeigt wird, dass sich steuerlich bedingtes und inflationsinduziertes Wachstum parallel im Kalkül erfassen lassen,...