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The Bidder Exclusion Effect
Coey, Dominic; Larsen, Bradley; Sweeney, Kane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We introduce a simple and robust approach to answering two key questions in empirical auction analysis: discriminating between models of entry and quantifying the revenue gains from improving auction design. The approach builds on Bulow and Klemperer (1996), connecting their theoretical results...
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Insurer Competition and Negotiated Hospital Prices
Ho, Kate; Lee, Robin S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We measure the impact of increased health insurer competition on negotiated hospital prices using detailed 2004 … competition. We find that in--creasing competition reduces hospital prices on average, but that the most attractive hospitals can … leverage increased competition to negotiate higher rates. This bargaining effect creates in--centives for further hospital …
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Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin; Town, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
of market structure on quality of health care. The paper then moves on to consider competition in health insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223314
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Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions
Athey, Susan; Levin, Jonathan; Seira, Enrique - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We study entry and bidding patterns in sealed bid and open auctions with heterogeneous bidders. Using data from U.S. Forest Service timber auctions, we document a set of systematic effects of auction format: sealed bid auctions attract more small bidders, shift the allocation towards these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830377
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Antitrust
Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition …
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Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antras, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
the workhorse monopolistic competition model with constant-elasticity-of-substitution (CES) preferences. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969233
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Learning Capitalism the Hard Way--Evidence from Germany's Reunification
Triebs, Thomas P.; Tumlinson, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Communism in East Germany sought to dampen the effect of market forces on firm productivity for nearly 40 years. How did East German firms respond to the free market after being thrust into it in 1990? We use a formal learning model and German business survey data to analyze the lasting impact...
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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493267
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Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms
bloom, nicholas; van Reenen, John; Aghion, Philippe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
congruence of preferences as proxied by trust. Empirically, competition, human capital and IT also appear to foster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821819
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The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms
Antras, Pol; Fort, Teresa C.; Tintelnot, Felix - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper studies the extensive and intensive margins of firms' global sourcing decisions. We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. The model delivers a simple...
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