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Comment on: F.M. Scherer, "How US antitrust can go astray: the brand name prescription drug litigation"
Comments on the article `How US Antirust Can Go Astray: The Brand Name Prescription Drug Litigation,' by F.M. Scherer. Discussion of the issue of patent protection; Uniform monopoly price; Summary of price differentiation between groups of consumers.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
How young workers get their training: A survey of Germany versus the United States
The recent economic literature on the incidence of various forms of post-secondary on-the-job and off-the-job training in Germany and the United States, as well as on the effects of training on wages, inequality, and labor mobility is surveyed. Young workers in Germany receive substantially more company-based (apprenticeship) training than United States workers. In the United States…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
European Economic Area and Switzerland - EU Bilateral Agreements in Comparative Perspective : What Lessons?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
The choice between emission taxes and output taxes under imperfect monitoring
We consider a regulator's choice between environmentally motivated emissions taxes and output taxes. We investigate how the optimal instrument depends on the monitoring cost function, the firm's technology, and on social preferences regarding output and environmental quality. Pure emissions taxes are usually not optimal with monitoring costs. Pure output taxes are optimal…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Was prometheus unbound by chance? Risk diversification and growth
This paper offers a theory of development that links the degree of market incompleteness to capital accumulation and growth. At early stages of development, the presence projects limits the degree of risk spreading (diversification) that the economy can achieve. The desire to avoid highly risky investments slows down capital accumulation, and the inability to diversify idiosyncratic…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Resistant Modelling of Income Distributions and Inequality Measures
We review the use and the interpretation of some robustness concepts and techniques in some economic applications. We focus on estimation techniques in income distribution analysis and we discuss the reliability of inequality measures.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Approximations of Profit-and-Loss Distributions (Management Version)
The incorporation of single-factor interest rate models within the stochastic programming methodology is investigated and applied to multiperiod investment. Barycentric approximation is used for discretizing the stochastic factors and for generating scenario trees which take the various term structure movements into account. It is shown that employing the Vasicek model for the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Approximations of Profit-and-Loss Distributions (Part II)
working report - Former investigation (Approximation of Profit-and-Loss Distributions, Part I) introduces the application of the barycentric approximation methodology for evaluating profit-and-loss distributions numerically. Although, convergence of the quantiles is ensured by the weak convergence of the discrete measures, as proclaimed in Part I, recent numerical results have…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Mean-Variance Analysis in a Multiperiod Setting
Similar to the classical Markowitz approach it is possible to apply a mean-variance criterion to a multiperiod setting to obtain efficient portfolios. To represent the stochastic dynamic characteristics necessary for modelling returns a process of asset returns is discretized with respect to time and space and summarized in a scenario tree. The resulting optimization problem is…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
The cooperation between social movements and the state: Dimensions, conditions, and implications
Social movements can have an impact on institutions by aiming explicitly at institutional change or by pursuing policy goals. In the former situation, their chances of success depends on factors internal and external to the movements. In the latter situation, the contribution of policy-oriented movements to institutional reform can be seen as a by-product of their action. A process…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Vaclav Havel's moral state : a Kohlbergian approach
What does it mean to be moral ? What does it mean to be a moral political man ? This contribution takes Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development as the analytical frame to answer these questions. Based on the writings of Vaclav Havel, political dissident and then first president of the postcommunist Tchecoslovakian Republic, our study displays how emblematic a moral man…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Efficient private provision of public goods when by rewarding deviations from average
This paper proposes the following incentive scheme for the private provision of public goods: government should reward and penalize deviations from the mean contribution by an appropriate factor. This makes efficient contribution individually rational even if individuals see through the government budget constraint.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/1996
Applied Cointegration Analysis in the Mirror of Macroeconomic Theory
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/1996
Refinement Issues in Stochastic Multistage Linear Programming
Institution partenaire
English / 17/06/1996
Long-term care insurance and bequests as instruments for shaping intergenerational relationships
The growing demand for long-term care (LTC) causes the relationship between children and their parents to gain increased importance for society. Parents may create incentives for children to provide LTC through bequests, or they may purchase LTC insurance. While these instruments have been analyzed separately in the literature, this article shows that optimal LTC insurance must be…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Unskilled labor and wage determination: an empirical investigation for Germany
This article contributes to the ongoing debate on native wage impacts of immigration. I propose a mobile-fixed factor distinction as a framework in which to think about the differential impact of immigration on various labor market groups. Skilled workers are treated as a fixed factor of production since the strong reliance on skill certification in Germany inhibits mobility and…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Employment Prospects and Skill Acquisition of Apprenticeship-Trained Workers in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984-90, the author analyzes the entrance of young individuals into the German labor market, comparing the experience of apprenticeship graduates to that of graduates from universities, full-time vocational schools, and secondary schools. Apprentices experienced fewer unemployment spells in the transition to their first full-time…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of underreported count data with an application to worker absenteeism
A new approach for modeling under-reported Poisson counts is developed. The parameters of the model are estimated by Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. An application to workers absenteeism data from the German Socio-Economic Panel illustrates the fruitfulness of the approach. Worker absenteeism and the level of pay are unrelated, but absence rates increase with firm size.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
A fair mechanism for the efficient reduction of global CO2-emissions
Because of the public good character of global emissions it is difficult to implement reduction
targets as formulated at Toronto or Rio. This paper presents a simple mechanism for inducing
efficient contributions to the reductions of emissions as a non-cooperative equilibrium. The
world is partitioned into groups of countries, and then each country is taxed or…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Retirement of spouses and social security reform
The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets, sharing rules for income and housework, or complementarity of leisure. Because of data limitations, only a few empirical studies exist on this topic. From a policy point of view interdependent retirement could become important if legislators in different EC countries are…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
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