D I Kass,P A Pautler
D I Kass
Interest in the efficiency or inefficiency of non-profit firms has spawned research on the administrative costs of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. Relying on plausible implications of the property rights theory of the firm, both Blair, Gi...
D Flath
D Flath
Short-term leasing is an everyday occurrence. Tax savings cannot account for the ubiquity of leasing by temporary users. Monopoly explanations are inconsistent with concurrent leasing and selling markets for perfect substitutes. Leasing eco...
The competitive response of Blue Cross to the health maintenance organization [0.03%]
蓝十字会对健康维护组织的反应竞争性响应
L G Goldberg,W Greenberg
L G Goldberg
The health maintenance organization (HMO) is an alternative to the traditional fee-for-service health care system in the United States. Other studies have shown that the HMO reduces hospital utilization and offers greater benefit packages t...
Paperwork and bureaucracy [0.03%]
文书工作和官僚主义
J T Bennett,M H Johnson
J T Bennett
This study explores paperwork as an inherent characteristic of bureaucratic behavior. The magnitude and scope of the federal government paperwork burden on the private sector is given particular emphasis. A theoretical model of bureaucratic...
D M Brown,H E Lapan
D M Brown
This paper presents a model of the supply of physicians' services based upon the assumption that physicians are price-taking utility maximizers. Assuming physicians' services are produced using physicians' labor and purchased inputs, the pa...