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Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals

Dubois, Pierre; Lasio, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

chosen in some markets, for example due to regulation. We use our identification strategy to study the effects of regulatory …-ulcer drugs that allows us to explore the drivers of demand, to identify whether regulation in France truly affects margins and … increased over the 2004-2007 period because of new regulation of price setting that reduced branded drugs prices but increased …

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Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets: a Differential-Game Approach

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities) taking a differential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling framework, we derive the open-loop solution (providers commit to an...

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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care

Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We consider a two-period model. In the first period, individuals consume two goods: one is sinful and the other is not. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate this effect. In the second period, individuals can...

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The Effect of Disability on Labour Market Outcomes in Germany: Evidence from Matching

Lechner, Michael; Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disabled and non-disabled individuals. This Paper examines the impact of disability status on labour market outcomes using matching methods...

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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities), using a Hotelling framework, in the presence of sluggish demand. We take a differential game approach, and derive the open-loop solution (providers commit to an...

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The Cost of Binge Drinking

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...

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Cannabis Use and Support for Cannabis Legalization

Palali, Ali; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the support for cannabis legalization finding a causal effect of personal experience with cannabis use. Current and past cannabis users are more in favor of legalization. We relate this to self-interest and inside information about potential dangers of cannabis...

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Household Responses to Information on Child Nutrition: Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting. It examines the effects of a randomized intervention in Malawi which provides mothers with information on...

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Evaluating the effect of ownership status on hospital quality: the key role of innovative procedures

Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...

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Genetic testing with primary prevention and moral hazard

Bardey, David; De Donder, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We develop a model where a genetic test reveals whether an individual has a low or high probability of developing a disease. A costly prevention effort allows high-risk agents to decrease this probability. Agents are not obliged to take the test, but must disclose its results to insurers, and...

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