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One Kind of Lawlessness: Estimating the Welfare Cost of Somali Piracy
Besley, Tim; Fetzer, Thiemo; Mueller, Hannes - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of piracy attacks on shipping costs using a unique data set on shipping contracts in … the dry bulk market. We look at shipping routes whose shortest path exposes them to piracy attacks and find that the … welfare loss imposed by piracy. Our intermediate estimate suggests that the creation of $120 million of revenue for pirates in …
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Bargaining and idle public sector capacity in health care
Barros, Pedro Pita; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005
A feature present in countries with a National Health Service is the coexistence of a public and a private sector. Often, the public payer contracts with private providers while holding idle capacity. This is often seen as inefficiency from the management of public facilities. We present here a...
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Negotiation Advantages of Professional Associations in Health Care
Barros, Pedro Pita; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
providers. The more efficient providers are also the ones with higher profits in the event of negotiation failure. This allows …
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