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Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people vaccinated. If people may avoid vaccination … because (1) they worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) they want to free ride on herd immunity, the vaccination … effectiveness of the vaccination lottery over a lump-sum transfer. Overall, vaccination lottery works better, and it particularly …
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, vaccination efficiency was lower in states with a centralized public health agency. States with a larger share of the elderly … performed using vaccination from a more recent period. Finally, a state’s legacy of corrupt activity, across two different time …
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to study how the design of the vaccine approval procedure affects public attitudes towards vaccination. Compared to an … Emergency Use Authorization, choosing the more thorough Accelerated Authorization approval procedure increases vaccination … key mediator of treatment effects on vaccination intentions …
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) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the … vaccination becomes available, therefore, the mitigating factor of the latter is at least partially offset by the former. A new …
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pricing system was changed in 2011 in order to tie prices more to the benefits of the pharmaceuticals. A multiple linear … regression of 187 pharmaceuticals which were assessed from 2011 to 2017 suggests that, despite the change, the manufacturers …
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A non-trivial fraction of people cannot afford to buy pharmaceutical products at unregulated market prices. Therefore, the paper analyzes the public insurance of the pharmaceutical products in terms of price controls and the socially optimal third-degree price discrimination. It characterizes...
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We study the moral hazard effects of the drug copayment threshold in Finland using detailed prescription drug purchase data. The analysis reveals that the average drug costs increase discontinuously by 17% at the threshold above which out-of-pocket drug costs decrease substantially. Our results...
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We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We … over to the case of non-renewable resource industries. The profitability of a symmetric cross-ownership can be positive …
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How can tax policy improve financial stability? Recent studies suggest large stability gains from eliminating the debt bias in corporate taxation. It is well known that this reform reduces bank leverage. This paper analyzes a novel, complementary channel: risk taking. We model banks’ portfolio...
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We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently practice price discrimination on returning customers. The monopolist’s price discrimination scheme is leaky, in the sense that an endogenous fraction of consumers choose to...
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