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Monetary Policy in the Presence of Supply Constraints : Evidence from German Firm-Level Data

Balleer, Almut; Noeller, Marvin - 2023

Using firm-level survey data from Germany, this paper asks how do supply constraints propagate monetary policy shocks …

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The Gift of a Lifetime : The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality

Hollingsworth, Alex; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Thomasson, … - 2022

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …

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Hospital competition with soft budgets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2013

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...

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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...

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Who Teaches the Teachers? A RCT of Peer-to-Peer Observation and Feedback in 181 Schools

Murphy, Richard - 2020

This paper evaluates a widely used, low stakes, teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a two-year program in which three fourth and fifth...

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Competition in Higher Education : A Survey

Kaganovich, Michael - 2020

The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not puzzling features such as the wide spectrum of institutional arrangements and sources of funding, stark segmentation in levels of selectivity and instructional resources, and high...

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Airline Alliances and Service Quality

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2018

Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap by...

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School Value-Added and Long-Term Student Outcomes

Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2022

Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and that schools differ in their contribution to students’ learning. However, there is less research investigating how these differences between schools influence longer-term...

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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany

Büttner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2006

in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …

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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2007

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

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