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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

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Outsourcing in Contests

Meland, Frode - 2006

increases competition between the contestants, leading to higher total contest effort, unless the ex-post bargaining strength of … stronger competition …

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Market Power and Welfare in Asymmetric Divisible Good Auctions

Manzano, Carolina - 2020

We analyze a divisible good uniform-price auction that features two groups each with a finite number of identical bidders and present conditions under which a unique privately revealing equilibrium exists. We derive novel comparative static results highlighting that increases in transaction...

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Estimating the Trade and Welfare Effects of Brexit : A Panel Data Structural Gravity Model

Oberhofer, Harald - 2018

This paper proposes a new panel data structural gravity approach for estimating the trade and welfare effects of Brexit. The suggested Constrained Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Estimator exhibits some useful properties for trade policy analysis and allows to obtain estimates and confidence...

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Heterogeneity in Needs and Negative Marginal Tax Rates

Bastani, Spencer - 2017

This paper highlights the possibility that negative marginal tax rates arise in an intensive-margin optimal income tax model where wages are exogenous and preferences are homogeneous, but where agents differ both in skills (labor market productivity) and their needs for a work-related...

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Expectations as Reference Points : Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment

Bartling, Björn - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Ownership and Control in a Competitive Industry

Karle, Heiko; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad O. - 2021

We study a differentiated product market in which an investor initially owns a controlling stake in one of two competing firms and may acquire a non-controlling or a controlling stake in a competitor, either directly using her own assets, or indirectly via the controlled firm. While industry...

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Voting Suffrage and the Political Budget Cycle : Evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902-1937

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2014

We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two …

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Capacity Investment Under Demand Uncertainty - An Empirical Study of the US Cement Industry, 1994-2006

Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - 2010

Uncertainty about the level of demand is thought to influence irreversible capacity decisions. This paper examines some implications of the theory literature on this topic in an empirical study of the US cement industry between 1994 and 2006. Firms in this sector have the ability to deliver...

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From Mine to Coast : Transport Infrastructure and the Direction of Trade in Developing Countries

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2013

Mine-related transport infrastructure specializes in connecting mines to the coast, and not so much to neighboring countries. This is most clearly seen in developing countries, whose transport infrastructure was originally designed to facilitate the export of natural resources in colonial times....

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