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Exploring the Heterogeneous Effects of State Price Transparency Laws on Charge Prices, Negotiated Prices, and Operating Costs

Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021

payer mix; and (3) hospital size and market competition. We also conduct counterfactuals to predict price changes of non … publicly report their charge prices. Our study evaluates the heterogeneous effects of this price transparency policy. We use a … synthetic control method that allows for heterogeneous treatment effects. We find that the price transparency policy not only …

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The Competitive Effects of Declining Entry Costs Over Time : Evidence from the Static Random Access Memory Market

Liu, An-Hsiang - 2020

We focus on the estimation of market entry costs that are declining over time and evaluate their impact on competition …

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A Lockdown a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: The Effectiveness of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Levelu, Anthonin; Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai - 2022

Countries have employed a variety of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in order to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the success of individual measures in reducing the number of infections remains controversial. This paper exploits a panel data set of 182 countries to estimate the...

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Late 19th and Early 20th Century Urban Net Nutrition by Gender and Race

Carson, Scott Alan - 2023

Individuals urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural living conditions. Body mass, height, and weight are welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Nineteenth and early...

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Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data

Compiani, Giovanni; Morozov, Ilya; Seiler, Stephan - 2023

and images in demand estimation helps us recover a flexible cross-price elasticity matrix. …

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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment

Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - 2013

This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...

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A Post Bellum Paradox: Net Nutrition Variation by Socioeconomic Status, Gender and Race in the Late 19th Century

Carson, Scott Alan - 2024

When traditional measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, body mass, height, and weight are complements to standard income and wealth measures. A persistent question in welfare studies is the 19th century's 2nd and 3rd quarter's stature diminution, a pattern known as the...

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Mapping the Risk of Spreading Fake-News via Wisdom-of-the-Crowd & MrP

t'Serstevens, François; Cerina, Roberto; Piccillo, Giulia - 2024

The alleged liberal bias and high costs of fact-checker ratings (Nieminen & Rapeli, 2019) have prevented their ability to limit the spread of fake news. Wisdom-of-the-crowd-based approaches, recognized as a credible alternative to traditional fact-checking methods, have gained prominence for...

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Asymmetry in volatility: A comparison of developed and transition stock markets

Wdowiński, Piotr; Malecka, Marta - 2010

ARCH modelling framework of Engle (1982) and its GARCH generalization of Bollerslev (1986) gave a huge impetus to econometric model building in the field of financial time series with time-varying variance. The main idea of the models was to describe the most typical features of capital markets...

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Should transportation output be included as part of the coincident indicators system?

Lahiri, Kajal; Yao, Wenxiong - 2011

With the increasing importance of the service-providing sectors, information from these sectors has become essential to the understanding of contemporary business cycles. This paper explores the usefulness of the transportation services output index (TSI) as an additional coincident indicator in...

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