Competition in network industries: Evidence from the Rwandan mobile phone network [0.03%]
RW移动电话网络行业的竞争分析
Daniel Björkegren
Daniel Björkegren
This article analyzes the potential for competition policy to affect welfare and investment in a network industry. When a network is split between competitors, each internalizes less network effects, but may still invest to steal customers....
Hongbin Cai,J Vernon Henderson,Qinghua Zhang
Hongbin Cai
This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003-2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold s...
Daniel Carvell,Janet Currie,W Bentley MacLeod
Daniel Carvell
Most U.S. states have enacted JSL reform, the move from a regime of joint and several liability (JSL) that allows plaintiffs to claim full recovery from any one of multiple defendants to one where defendants are held liable only for the har...
Can you get what you pay for? Pay-for-performance and the quality of healthcare providers [0.03%]
论“按绩效付费”：“按绩效付费”与医疗提供者质量之间的关系
Kathleen J Mullen,Richard G Frank,Meredith B Rosenthal
Kathleen J Mullen
Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool for improving quality of care, there is little empirical basis for its effectiveness. We use data from published performance report...
Catherine Schaumans,Frank Verboven
Catherine Schaumans
In many countries, pharmacies receive high regulated markups and are protected from competition through geographic entry restrictions. We develop an empirical entry model for pharmacies and physicians with two features: entry restrictions a...
Do report cards tell consumers anything they don't know already? The case of Medicare HMOs [0.03%]
报告卡能告诉消费者新的信息吗？以医疗保险组织为例分析报告卡的效果
Leemore Dafny,David Dranove
Leemore Dafny
Estimated responses to report cards may reflect learning about quality that would have occurred in their absence ("market-based learning"). Using panel data on Medicare HMOs, we examine the relationship between enrollment and quality before...
Short-term fluctuations in hospital demand: implications for admission, discharge, and discriminatory behavior [0.03%]
短期住院需求波动：对入院、出院及歧视行为的影响
Rajiv Sharma,Miron Stano,Renu Gehring
Rajiv Sharma
We analyze admission and discharge decisions when hospitals become capacity constrained on high-demand days, and develop a test for discrimination that, under certain circumstances, does not require controls for differences across patient g...
Experts' agency problems: evidence from the prescription drug market in Japan [0.03%]
来自日本医药市场的证据：专家代理问题
Toshiaki Iizuka
Toshiaki Iizuka
This article examined the physician-patient agency relationship in the context of the prescription drug market in Japan. In this market, physicians often both prescribe and dispense drugs and can pocket profits in so doing. A concern is tha...
Alan T Sorensen
Alan T Sorensen
I use data from the University of California to empirically examine the role of social learning in employees' choices of health plans. The basic empirical strategy starts with the observation that if social learning is important, health pla...
Coordinating on lower prices: pharmaceutical pricing under political pressure [0.03%]
协调降价：政坛压力下的药品定价政策
Sara Fisher Ellison,Catherine Wolfram
Sara Fisher Ellison
We investigate the effects of political activity on pharmaceutical prices, focusing on the health care reform period in the early 1990s.We characterize firms based on their vulnerability to future price regulation and find that the more vul...