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Adoption and Learning Across Hospitals : The Case of a Revenue-Generating Practice

Sacarny, Adam - 2021

Performance-raising practices tend to diffuse slowly in the health care sector. To understand how incentives drive adoption, I study a practice that generates revenue for hospitals: submitting detailed documentation about patients. After a 2008 reform, hospitals could raise their Medicare...

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An "Inflation Reports" Report

Leeper, Eric M. - 2021

This paper evaluates the Swedish Riksbank's Inflation Reports' and draws comparisons among the Reports issued by the Riksbank, the Bank of England, and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. This report poses and addresses a common set of questions about each of the three central banks' Inflation...

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Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns?

Brown, Gregory W. - 2016

Private equity funds hold assets that are hard to value. Managers may have an incentive to distort reported valuations if these are used by investors to decide on commitments to subsequent funds managed by the same firm. Using a large dataset of buyout and venture funds, we test for the presence...

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From Nothing to Too Much : Regulatory Reform in Greece

Hatzis, Aristides N.; Nalpantidou, Sonia - 2013

make the situation worse, an impact assessment analysis should accompany every law and every regulation of every Ministry …

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The Effect of Privacy Regulation on the Data Industry : Empirical Evidence from Gdpr

Aridor, Guy; Che, Yeon-Koo; Salz, Tobias - 2022

Regulation (GDPR). The opt-in requirement of GDPR resulted in 12.5% drop in the intermediary-observed consumers, but the …

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The Failure of Free Entry

Gutiérrez Gallardo, Germán; Philippon, Thomas - 2022

We study the entry and exit of firms across U.S. industries over the past 40 years. The elasticity of entry with respect to Tobin’s Q was positive and significant until the late 1990s but declined to zero afterwards. Standard macroeconomic models suggest two potential explanations: rising...

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Does Competition Affect Bank Risk?

Jiang, Liangliang - 2017

Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the impact of competition on risk. In this paper, we employ a new approach for identifying exogenous changes in the competitive...

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Imperfect Markets Versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation

Cicala, Steve - 2017

This paper measures changes in electricity generation costs caused by the introduction of market mechanisms to determine output decisions in service areas that were previously using command-and-control-type operations. I use the staggered transition to markets from 1999- 2012 to evaluate the...

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Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry

Faccio, Mara - 2017

government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …

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Optimal Regulation with Exemptions

Kaplow, Louis - 2017

basic and ubiquitous features of regulation as actually implemented throughout the world has received little theoretical … because exemption induces additional harmful activity to be channeled their way. This article analyzes optimal regulation with … regulation, which illustrates the contrast with the mechanism design approach that analyzes the optimal use of instruments of a …

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