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R&D and strategic industrial location in international oligopolies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-03) -
R&D policies, trade and process innovation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-11)We set up a simple trade model with two countries hosting one firm each. The firms invest in cost-reducing R&D, and each government may grant R&D subsidies to the domestic firm. We show that it is optimal for a government ... -
Rags and Riches: Relative Prices, Non-Homothetic Preferences, and Inequality in India
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)It is well known that consumption patterns change with income. Relative price changes would therefore affect rich and poor consumers differently. Yet, the standard price indices are not income-specific, and hence, they ... -
Redistribution in a divided world
(Doctoral thesis, 2000) -
Redistributive taxation and the household : the case of individual filings
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-01)In this paper I look at the tax treatment of households under individual filings and characterise the efficiency properties of an income tax schedule that redistributes from rich to poor households. Because tax liabilities ... -
Reducing Early Pregnancy in Low-Income Countries : a literature review and new evidence
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018) -
Reference pricing of pharmaceuticals
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-11)We consider a therapeutic market with potentially three pharmaceutical firms. Two of the firms offer horizontally differentiated brand-name drugs. One of the brand-name drugs is a new treatment under patent protection ... -
Reference pricing with endogenous generic entry
(Discussion paper;04/15, Working paper, 2015-03)In this paper we study the effect of reference pricing on pharmaceutical prices and expenditures when generic entry is endogenously determined. We develop a Salop-type model where a brand-name producer competes with generic ... -
Regional growth in Western Europe : an empirical exploration of interactions with agriculture and agricultural policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-01)Studies of convergence of regional growth in Western Europe have given varying results, depending on the addition of conditioning variables and estimation methods, as well as underlying models. This exploration adds ... -
Regional growth in Western Europe : detecting spatial misspecification using the R environment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)The work discussed in Bivand and Brunstad (2003) was an attempt to throw light on apparent variability in regional convergence in relation to agriculture as a sector subject to powerful political measures, in Western ... -
Regional policy and rent seeking : targeted versus broad based policies
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-04)Policies aimed at promoting regional development have often had disappointing results. The present paper offers an explanation for why such policies may fail, and, more importantly, analyses how policies may be designed ... -
Regional policy design : an analysis of relocation, efficiency and equity
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2004-02)Despite substantial regional expenditures at both national and community level, European regional policies do not appear to deliver. The evidence suggests that neither efficiency gains nor reduced regional inequalities are ... -
Regulation and pricing of pharmaceuticals : reference pricing or price cap regulation?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-09)We study the relationship between regulatory regimes and pharmaceutical firms’ pricing strategies using a unique policy experiment from Norway, which in 2003 introduced a reference price (RP) system called “index pricing” ... -
Regulation of pollution in a Cournot equilibrium
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-06)In the traditional Cournot model producers influence each other’s decisions through revenue earned in the product market. Rosen (1965) introduced the notion of a coupled constraints equilibrium which allowed players to ... -
Regulation, generic competition and pharmaceutical prices : theory and evidence from a natural experiment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-12)We study the impact of regulatory regimes on generic competition and pharmaceutical pricing using a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub-sample ... -
Rejecting Non-Paternalist Motivation: An Experimental Test
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021) -
Relational Incentive Contracts and Performance Measurement.
(DP SAM;7/2018, Working paper, 2018-04)This paper analyzes relational contracts under moral hazard. We first show that if the available information (signal) about effort satisfies a generalized monotone likelihood ratio property, then irrespective of whether ... -
Relationship learning with key customers
(Doctoral thesis, 2002) -
Relative purchasing power parity and the European monetary union: Evidence from eastern Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This paper examine whether relative purchasing power parity holds for Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Romania and Turkey versus Germany over the period January 1999 to May 2013. We investigate the real ... -
Relative wages and trade-induced changes in technology
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-09)We develop a model where trade liberalization leads to skill-biased technological change, which in turn raises the relative return to skilled labor. When firms get access to a larger market, the relative profitability of ...