The new policy implications box

Pharmacology: policy implications of new psychiatric drugs.

New trade theory: implications for industrial policy

The new trade theory, which emerged in the early 1980s, emphasised economies of scale and market failures as driving forces behind international trade. As opposed to the earlier theory, which mainly assumed perfect competition, the new trade theory provided a rationale for industrial policy. This article shows how industrial policy targeting specific firms or industries may be socially desirabl...

Policy Implications of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

T he theoretical framework within which optimal monetary policy was studied before the arrival of the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC), but after economists had become comfortable using dynamic, optimizing, general equilibrium models and a welfare-maximizing criterion for policy analysis, was one in which the central source of nominal nonneutrality was a demand for money. At center stage in ...

Review of Nutrition Policy Options for Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in the Populations: Lesson Learned and Policy Implications

Background: The development of policies for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption is highlighted as a priority in developing countries. This review study aimed to present the available policy options for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in the populations. Methods: To collect relevant English publications, five electronic databases, including PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Embase, ProQu...

Pre-Release Movie Piracy and Box Office Sales: Estimates and Policy Implications

The impact of piracy on digital media sales is an important academic, managerial, and policy question. Answers to this question are particularly salient for theatrical piracy where rights-holders and policy-makers are struggling to determine both the size of the problem and the appropriate legislative and managerial responses, and where there are few if any rigorous academic studies to guide th...