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Managing Margins : PE Effects on Financial, Physical, and Human Capital
Richards, Michael R.; Shi, Maggie; Whaley, Christopher M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-firms are incompletely understood. We exploit a historically large leveraged buyout of a national hospital chain to examine how … the full life cycle of PE influences hospital-level revenues, technology sourcing, labor use, and financial performance …. We find permanent improvements in hospital volumes and revenues. PE also reduces growth in full-time employees, with a …
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Designing Quality Certificates : Insights from eBay
Hui, Xiang; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Quality certification is a common tool to reduce asymmetric information and enhance trust in marketplaces. Should the certificate focus on seller inputs such as fast shipping, or include output measures such as consumer ratings? In theory, incorporating output measures makes the certificate more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814449
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Quality Disclosure and Certification : Theory and Practice
Dranove, David - 2010
This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address three key theoretical issues: (i) Why don't sellers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463006
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah - 2014
We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458625
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Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings
Simcoe, Timothy - 2012
We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460274
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Hospital Pricing and Public Payments
Darden, Michael - 2018
exogenous variation in Medicare payment rates generated by two policies under the Affordable Care Act: the Hospital Readmission … Reduction Program (HRRP) and the Hospital Value Based Purchasing (HVBP) program. We merge rich hospital-level information to … claim, or $82,000 per hospital, based on an average hospital penalty of nearly $146,000. We find the largest increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453410
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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453833
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The Inner Workings of the Patient Centered Medical Home Model
David, Guy - 2016
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a model for restructuring primary care with a focus on improved access to care and clinical excellence. However, to date, the evidence on its effect on healthcare utilization and expenditures has been quite mixed. One possible reason for this may lie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456248
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Provider Payment Incentives : Evidence From The U.S. Hospice Industry
Coe, Norma B.; Rosenkranz, David A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and providers respond. We investigate hospice programs'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372448
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Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing : A q-r Theory
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. It is motivated by the increasing tendency of academic journals to require multiple revisions of articles and by changes in the content of articles. Papers are modeled as varying along two quality dimensions: q and r. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470945