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Healthy business? : managerial rducation and management in healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Lemos, Renata; Van … - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower … mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …
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Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and evidence from computer markets
Genakos, Christos D.; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by 'restoring' second degree price discrimination. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209834
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Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case
Kuhn, Kai Uwe; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746007
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Is there a market for work group servers? Evaluating market level demand elasticities using micro and macro models
Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper contains an empirical analysis demand for “work-group” (or low-end) servers. Servers are at the centre of many US and EU anti-trust debates, including the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and investigations into the activities of Microsoft. One question in these policy decisions is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071318
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The growth of network computing : quality adjusted price changes for network servers
Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
In this paper we investigate the evolution of quality adjusted prices for servers motivated by two facts. First, the productivity acceleration in the US economy since the mid 1990s is closely linked to spread of information technology of which networked computing is a large component. Second,...
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Interoperability and Foreclosure in the European Microsoft Case
Kuhn, Kai-Uwe; Van Reenen, John - 2014
In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048367
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Support for R&D subsidies relies on empirical evidence that R&D "spills over" between firms. But firm performance is affected by two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative business stealing effects from R&D by product market rivals. We develop a...
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Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules
Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard; Lau, Morten I.; Poutvaara, Panu - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 3, pp. 325-325
This paper studies human-capital formation, labor-supply, and retirement decisions associated with four alternative regimes of social security. We implement a theoretical model with overlapping generations of households and two different ability types within each generation. We find that with a...
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Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers
Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
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