As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across world, United States and its allies are pushing for answers about virus's origins while China rebuffs inquiry into early handling of outbreak. Meanwhile, a growing U.S. stockpile vaccines has opened new avenues “vaccine diplomacy,” Biden administration thrown weight behind an effort suspend cross-border intellectual property (IP) rules vaccine m...

It is well known that store level sales respond positively to short term price promotions. Under the assumption of constant consumption rate, previous literature has identified that the sources for this increase are brand switching, purchase acceleration, and stockpiling. However, recent research has shown that the consumption of households is also affected positively by price promotions. In th...

It is well known that in package goods categories a temporary price cut of a brand leads to increase in the sales of that brand in the current period. Under the assumption of stable consumption rate, previous literature has identified that the sources for the increase in sales are brand switching, purchase acceleration, and increase in quantity. However, there are very few studies that have for...

CONTEXT Achieving successful eradication of a disease requires global cooperation to obtain a shared goal. Coordination of the endgame may seem an obvious requirement for success, but that does not ensure that cooperation will occur. OBJECTIVE To analytically explore the need for cooperation to maintain global polio eradication specifically related to creation of a global polio vaccine stockp...

BACKGROUND Neuraminidase inhibitors were used to reduce the transmission of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 at the early stages of the 2009/2010 pandemic. Policies for diagnosis of influenza for the purposes of antiviral intervention differed markedly between and within countries, leading to differences in the timing and scale of antiviral usage. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The impact of th...

Purpose This research aims to study the recent changes in consumer behaviour and purchase pattern during Covid-19 pandemic. pandemic has forced consumers stockpile, which its own consequences. The article proposes importance of “minimalism consumption” avoid greed behaviour. Design/methodology/approach data are collected from across India using an online survey first lockdown March 2020 May 202...