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The collapse of the clearinghouse for the entry-level gastroenterology labor market offers a unique opportunity to … kind that occurred in the gastroenterology market. We find that a reduction in demand for positions leads to the collapse … posed by market participants about whether the clearinghouse could be successfully restarted, and that this would relieve …
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We consider nonparametric identification in models of differentiated products markets, using only market level … models widely used in applied work. We allow for product/market-specific unobservables, endogenous product characteristics (e …
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run in a general setting with minimal restrictions on endowments, beliefs, or utility functions. We show that the market …
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This report describes an easily computable model of the relation between cigarette prices and cigarette consumption in the United States. The model is used to predict the revenue impacts of Federal excise tax hikes ranging from $0.45 to $1.76 per pack
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play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market prices, for example, are more likely … to perceive high prices as fair than buyers used to low market prices. Similarly, employees used to high wages are more …
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like market power. We study pharmaceutical firms' payments to physicians, leveraging instrumental variables based on … regional spillovers from hospitals' conflict-of-interest policies and market shocks due to patent expiration. We find that the …
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Nursing homes participate simultaneously in a regulated and an unregulated market, and are required to supply the same … care of Medicaid patients, whereas nursing homes charge "private pay" patients what the market will bear. Quality is … determined by competition in the"private pay" patient market. The greater the size of the "private pay" market relative to the …
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This paper presents a theory of rigidity, or more properly inertia, in the responses of economic variables to changing environments. The theory rests on three fundamental assumptions: (1) that firms are risk averse, (2) that firms are uncertain of the impacts of changing decision variables and...
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. Economists have developed a large number of plausible market mechanisms for the efficient provision of public goods, and the …
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a single political unit. It then proceeds to enquire whether market mechanisms could be used to choose optimally the … common policy of heterogenous actors, and thus provide an alternative to political decision-making. The advantage of market … fundamental logical objections or impossible practical obstacles to such market games, and even if they are rejected in principle …
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