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Exploring the heterogeneous effects of state price transparency laws on charge prices, negotiated prices, and operating costs

Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021

reduced charge prices by 3.9% (which corresponds to savings of $1,164 per hospital stay) but also diminished negotiated prices … by 15.9% and hospital costs by 4.7%. Our estimation results show that the effects on charge prices do not last as long as … negotiated prices, while low-price hospitals increase charges; (2) hospital characteristics such as ownership, case mix, and …

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Using fees to reduce bed-blocking : a game between hospitals and care providers

Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016

, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …

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First do no harm. Then do not cheat : DRG upcoding in German neonatology

Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein-Neu, Juliane - 2013

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

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Introducing activity-based payment in the hospital industry : evidence from French data

Choné, Philippe; Evain, Franck; Wilner, Lionel; … - 2013

Many countries have reformed hospital reimbursement policies to provide stronger incentives for quality and cost …

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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? To answer this question, we first offer a general discussion on the measurement of supply constraints. We show that capacity utilization, a widely accepted measure of...

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Unoberserved components models for quarterly German GDP

Flaig, Gebhard - 2002

In this paper, an Unobserved Components Model is employed to decompose German real GDP into the trend, cycle and seasonal components and the working day effect. The most important findings are: 1) The growth rate of potential output declined from 4.2 per cent in the sixties to 1.4 per cent at...

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Entry dynamics, capacity utilisation and productivity in a dynamic open economy

Aloi, Marta; Dixon, Huw - 2002

This paper analyses an open economy Ramsey model with an endogenous labour supply without capital. The technology defines an optimal firm size. Changes to the number of firms is subject to adjustment costs, so that the entry dynamics is determined endogenously. We find that there is a short run...

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Estimating the output gap using business survey data : a bivariate structural time series model for the German economy

Flaig, Gebhard; Ploetscher, Claudia - 2000

This paper deals with the estimation of the output gap. We use uni- and bivariate unobserved components models in order to decompose the observed German GDP-series into trend, cycle and seasonal components. The results show that using the ifo business assessment variable as an indicator for the...

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Downtown curbside parking capacity

Arnott, Richard; Inci, Eren; Rowse, John G. - 2013

In downtown areas, what proportion of curbside should be allocated to parking? In contrast to most previous work on the economics of parking, this paper focuses on optimal curbside parking capacity in both first-best (where pricing is efficient) and second-best (where pricing is inefficient)...

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The information content of capacity utilisation rates for output gap estimates

Graff, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2010

From a theoretical perspective, the output gap is probably the most comprehensive and convincing concept to describe the cyclical position of an economy. Unfortunately, for practical purposes, the concept depends on the determination of potential output, which is an inherently unobservable...

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