Alfons Palangkaraya

TL;DR: This paper analyzed whether patent examination outcomes at the European and Japanese patent offices vary systematically by inventor nationality and technology area, using a matched sample of 47,947 patent applications and found that domestic inventors have a higher likelihood of obtaining a patent grant than foreign inventors and that the positive domestic inventor effect is stronger in areas of technological specialization in the domestic economy.

TL;DR: Using panel data from 22 OECD countries from the first half of the 1990s, population ageing is found to be negatively correlated with health expenditure once proximity to death is accounted for, suggesting that the effects of ageing on health expenditure growth might be overstated while theeffects of the high costs of medical care at the end of life are potentially underestimated.

TL;DR: In this article, one component of the duration of pending patents -why applicants choose to delay the examination process of patent applications is modelled and evidence that applicants create investment uncertainty by delaying decisions to request patent examination is found.

TL;DR: The Australian government implemented a sequence of new policy initiatives during 1997{2000 with a stated aim of raising the take-up rate of private health insurance (PHI), and the effects of those different policies are isolated using the 1995 and 2001 National Health Survey data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test for the effects that trust in the context in which the negotiating parties first met on the likelihood that these negotiations are successful, and find that trust matters: parties with high levels of trust (i.e. know each other from a previous business) are between 6 and 23 per cent more likely to conclude a transaction compared with those with low level of trust, such as cold callers.