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Saving Lives at Birth : The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Meltem Daysal, N.; Trandafir, M.; van Ewijk, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for...
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Competition Leverage : How the Demand Side Affects Optimal Risk Adjustment
boone, jan; Bijlsma, M.; Zwart, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
types increases consumer welfare by leveraging competition from the elastic low-risk market to the less elastic high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092046
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Mandatory Quality Disclosure and Quality Supply : Evidence from German Hospitals
Filistrucchi, Lapo; Ozbugday, F.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: Using a newly constructed dataset on German hospitals, which includes 24 process and outcome indicators of clinical quality, we test whether quality has increased in various clinical areas since the introduction of mandatory quality reports and the online publication of part of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092385
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Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California
Meltem Daysal, N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
Abstract: In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092760
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Provider Competition and Over-Utilization in Health Care
boone, jan; Douven, R.C.M.H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014
This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in …
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Prescribing Behavior of General Practitioners : Competition Matters!
Schaumans, C.B.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014
exhibit different prescribing behavior (volume and value of prescriptions) when confronted with more competition. As there is … no monetary benefit in doing so, this type of (perceived) quality competition originates from GPs satisfying patients … the level of competition. The level of competition is measured by GP density, after controlling for the number of GPs and …
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Taxation and Market Power
Müller, Wieland; Konrad, K.A.; Morath, F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010
We analyze the incidence and welfare e¤ects of unit sales taxes in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets. We nd, in line with economic theory, that rms with no market power are able to shift a high share of a tax burden on to consumers, independent of whether buyers are automated or human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090400
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Cross-Border Mergers and Market Segmentation (Replaces CentER DP 2010-096)
Ray Chaudhuri, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
This paper shows that cross-border mergers are more likely to occur in industries which serve multiple segmented markets rather than a single integrated market, given that cost functions are strictly convex. The product price rises in the market where an acquisition is made but falls in the...
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Acquisitions by Multinationals and Trade Liberalization
Ray Chaudhuri, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014
Abstract This paper develops a theoretical framework where a multinational firm (MNE) is allowed to acquire or sell a productive asset in multiple segmented asset markets. The asset is used to produce a final good which can be sold in multiple countries, with segmented product markets,...
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On the Optimal Taxation of an Exhaustible Resource Under Monopolistic Extraction
Daubanes, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007
In a simple model of resource depletion (isoelastic demand and constant unit extraction cost), we fully characterize the set of linear effiency-inducing tax/subsidy schemes. We show that this set is infinite and all the larger as the cost of extraction is low. Depending on the magnitude of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090731