After it was put on the market, Vioxx, a popular and widelyadvertised arthritis drug, was found to have cardiovascular risks. It took fourteen months of intense negotiation before a warning was added to the labeling, which cautioned about use by those with heart disease and the “unknown” significance of study findings. When a later study confirmed the risk, Merck, the drug maker, withdrew the d...

While most drug policy researches paid attention to the financial impact of expensive drugs, the market situation of low-priced drugs in a country was seldom analyzed. We used the nationally representative claims datasets to explore the status within the National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan. In 2007, a total of 12,443 distinct drug items had been prescribed 853,250,147 times with total exp...

Parenteral drug delivery is the second largest segment of the pharmaceutical market and accounts for nearly 30% of the market share. Currently, around 3.5 billion prefilled syringes are produced each year and that number is growing between 9%-10% annually. The Future of Alliances and Partnerships in the Prefilled Syringes Market to 2020 forecasts that the global market for prefilled syringes wi...

Despite the political sensitivity of foreign capital, existing work on the effect of foreign capital at the firm level is slim. This paper examines the effect of foreign equity ownership and management on firm performance using a panel of Korean firms for the period of 1993-2007 when foreign capital inflows increased dramatically. Empirical results show that foreign equity ownership positively ...

• The role played by the state as a land market regulator in urban areas with natural vulnerability to flooding; as a producer of urban land and housing; and as a builder of defenses against flooding. • Impacts on the land market of flooding and built defenses as well as access to urban land for different population sectors; land value increases and decreases in urban areas according to floodin...

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