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The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
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When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by "restoring" second degree price discrimination. In...
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Has the introduction of greater choice and competition in healthcare in England led to improved outcomes for patients? The authors assess changes in the quality of care that hospitals provided for cardiac surgery patients following the mid-2000s reforms.
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We present a decision theoretic framework in which agents are learning about market behavior and that provides … microfoundations for models of adaptive learning. Agents are 'internally rational', i.e., maximize discounted expected utility under … discounted sum of dividends. As a result, learning about price behavior affects market outcomes, while learning about the …
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beliefs about price and dividend behavior to deviate slightly from rational expectations priors. Learning about stock price … system of beliefs and other model features. We depart from previous studies of asset prices under learning in that agents …
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with experience. We then reject increasing confidence in private information or learning about the structure of the …
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Higher ability workers benefit more from bigger cities while housing costs there are higher for everyone, and yet there is little sorting on ability. A possible explanation is that young individuals have an imperfect assessment of their ability, and, when they learn about it, early decisions...
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
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innovation is that we also have direct data on the sources of learning (in this case about new technologies). Controlling for … they learnt from buyers (relative to learning from other sources). Second, firms who had learned from buyers (more than … for the learning-by-exporting hypothesis. …
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A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes. We build around this a dynamic general equilibrium model, and derive conditions under which diversified and specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in...
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