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How does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program

Brown, Jason - 2011

Governments often contract with private firms to provide public services such as health care and education. To decrease …

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Raising Revenue by Limiting Tax Expenditures

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2014

Limiting tax expenditures can raise revenue without increasing marginal tax rates. Such a policy is equivalent to reducing government spending now done as subsidies through the tax code for a wide range of household spending and income. This paper explores one way of limiting tax expenditures: a...

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The Effect of Federal Tax Deductibility on State and Local Taxes and Spending

Feldstein, Martin - 1986

This paper examines the effect of federal deductibility of state and local taxes on the fiscal behavior of state and local governments. The primary finding is that deductibility affects the way that state-local governments finance their spending as well as the overall level of spending. More...

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The Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Gruber, Jonathan - 2010

This paper reviews the issues around and impacts of the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored insurance. After reviewing the arguments for and against this policy, I present micro-simulation evidence on the federal revenue, insurance coverage, and distributional impacts of various reforms to the...

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The Effects of Tax-Based Saving Incentives on Government Revenue and National Saving

Feldstein, Martin - 1992

This paper shows that previous analyses of IRA-type plans have miscalculated their effect on tax revenue and therefore on national saving by ignoring their impact on corporate tax payments. Recognizing the important effect of IRA plans on corporate tax revenue changes previous conclusions about...

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How Wide is the Scope of Hold-Up-Based Theories? Contractual Form and Market Thickness in Trucking

Hubbard, Thomas N. - 1999

How far do the contractual implications of hold-up-based theories (Klein, Crawford, and Alchian (1978), Williamson (1979, 1985)) extend? I investigate this in the context of trucking. Quasi-rents in trucking are generally smaller than in the contexts studied in the previous empirical literature....

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The Self-Enforcing Provisions of Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements : Theory and Evidence

Libecap, Gary D. - 1999

-term contracts. We argue that only if the parties to a unitization contract have unit production shares that are the same as their … cost shares will the contract be incentive compatible. Using a data base of sixty unit operating agreements, we measure the … desirable contract rules for avoiding moral hazard. It also shows how the effects of those rules can be replicated in difficult …

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Incentive Contracts

Lazear, Edward P. - 1986

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A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts

Green, Jerry R. - 1982

Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agents' output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is common to all the agents. The...

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Bilateral Contracts

Green, Jerry R. - 1981

efficiency is not attainable. We show that contracts involving mutual control might sometimes be superior to the best contract …

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