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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Courtemanche, Charles - 2018

dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …

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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB

Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013

Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …

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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology

Dranove, David - 2012

We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...

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Volatile Policy and Private Information : The Case of Monetary Policy

Jones, Larry E. - 1999

In this paper we study how volatility in monetary policy affects economic performance in the presence of endogenously chosen information structures. To isolate the effects produced by the interaction of uncertainty in monetary policy and (possibly) asymmetric information, we consider a model in...

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Persuading with Anecdotes

Haghtalab, Nika; Immorlica, Nicole; Lucier, Brendan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study a model of social learning and communication using hard anecdotal evidence. There are two Bayesian agents (a sender and a receiver) who wish to communicate. The receiver must take an action whose payoff depends on their personal preferences and an unknown state of the world. The sender...

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Coalition Formation in Legislative Bargaining

Battaglini, Marco - 2019

We propose a new model of legislative bargaining in which coalitions have different values, reflecting the fact that the policies they can pursue are constrained by the identity of the coalition members. In the model, a formateur picks a coalition and negotiates for the allocation of the surplus...

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Intellectual Property Infringement by Foreign Firms : Import Protection through the ITC or Court

Brander, James A.; Spencer, Barbara J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines intellectual property litigation as a method of protection from patent-infringing imports. Claims against patent-infringing imports entering the United States may be filed before the International Trade Commission (ITC) or in district court. The ITC applies injunctions...

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Tax Competition and Migration : The Race-to-the-Bottom Hypothesis Revisited

Razin, Assaf - 2011

Oates reminds us that tax competition among localities in the presence of capital mobility, may lead to inefficiently low tax rates (and benefits). In contrast, the Tiebout paradigm suggests that tax competition yields an efficient outcome, so that there are no gains from tax coordination. This...

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Subgame Perfect Implementation with Almost Perfect Information and the Hold-Up Problem

Aghion, Philippe - 2009

The foundations of incomplete contracts have been questioned using or extending the subgame perfect implementation … approach of Moore and Repullo (1988). We consider the robustness of subgame perfect implementation to the introduction of small …

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Unemployment Fluctuations With Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining

Gertler, Mark - 2006

A number of authors have recently emphasized that the conventional model of unemployment dynamics due to Mortensen and Pissarides has difficulty accounting for the relatively volatile behavior of labor market activity over the business cycle. We address this issue by modifying the MP framework...

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