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TB vaccine development: monitoring international patent filings to anticipate access challenges. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Pignataro MF, Scopel CT, Bacigalupo ML, Frick M, Kondratyuk S, Chaves GC.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Is Exclusivity in Broadcasting Rights Prevalent and Why Does Simple Regulation Fail?

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pay‐TV firms compete both downstream to attract viewers and upstream to acquire broadcasting rights. Because profits inherited from downstream competition satisfy a convexity property, allocating rights to the dominant firm maximizes the industry profit.
David Martimort, Jerome Pouyet
wiley   +1 more source

Marketing behind charity: Media narratives of tobacco industry donations in China. [PDF]

Tob Induc Dis
Chen Y, Lin H, Zhao X, Zhao Y, Wu K, Cai Y, Yu X, Yang X, Xu J, Chan KS.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Network Structure and the Efficiency Gains from Mergers: Evidence from U.S. Freight Railroads

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The trade‐off between market power and efficiency gains is central to antitrust analyses of mergers, but empirical evidence quantifying efficiencies remains limited. Using transaction‐level data from U.S. freight railroads (1985–2005), this article quantifies merger‐induced cost efficiencies, driven mainly by eliminating inter‐railroad ...
Yanyou Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy: Mix or Match?

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the influence of technological ownership on pricing strategies and productive efficiency. Our motivation comes from the evolving landscape of electricity markets where firms are transitioning from diversified to specialized portfolios, focusing on renewable energy or fossil fuels.
Natalia Fabra, Gerard Llobet
wiley   +1 more source

Dollars and dilemmas: lenacapavir's pricing, patents, and the path to affordability. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Adepoju VA, Abdulrahim A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Redistribution Through Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from Three Electricity Markets

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using micro‐data on over 160 million bids to buy and sell from three major electricity markets, we study efficiency improvements resulting from technologies such as storage. Consumer benefits arise not from stabilized prices but from changes in general price levels.
Matti Liski, Iivo Vehviläinen
wiley   +1 more source

To patent or not to patent: challenges and solutions to the patent ban on new genomic techniques plant in EU. [PDF]

GM Crops Food
Jiang L, Adcock M, Yang H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Search and Competition in Expert Markets

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze a model where consumers sequentially search experts for treatment recommendations and prices, facing either zero or a positive search cost, whereas experts simultaneously compete in these two dimensions. In equilibrium, experts may “cheat” by overstating the severity of a consumer's problem and recommending an unnecessary treatment,
Yiran Cao, Yongmin Chen, Yucheng Ding, Tianle Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Young people are demanding better from Britain's big food businesses: Bite Back movement. [PDF]

Future Healthc J
Elegbede AMD.
europepmc   +1 more source