Russian Industry in December 2012

December 2012

ith the aging population and recognition that treatment of a patient’s pain is a key healthcare objective, more patients are taking pain medications that must be taken consistently to be effective. But at the same time, many of these same medications are subject to abuse. These benefits and dangers drive the need to test for patient compliance. Although urine has historically been the specimen ...

Digest December 2012

In the December 2012 issue

Carbon taxes , path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry Discussion paper 2012 / 10 December 2012

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that firms tend to innovate relatively more in clean technologies when they face higher tax-inclusive fuel pr...

Persian-translation vol. 9, no. 5, December 2012