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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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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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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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Monetary policy in the presence of supply constraints : evidence from German firm-level data

Balleer, Almut; Nöller, 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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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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Collusion sustainability with a capacity constrained firm

Madio, Leonardo; Pignataro, Aldo - 2022

We study an infinitely repeated oligopoly game in which firms compete on quantity and one of them is capacity constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in the size of the capacity constrained firm, which has little incentive to deviate from a cartel. We also present...

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Deep dynamics

Gottfries, Nils; Mickelsson, Glenn; Stadin, Karolina - 2021

How do firms adjust their output, inventories, employment and capital in response to demandsideshocks? To understand this, we estimate a reduced-form model using firm-level panel dataand we construct a theoretical model that can match the estimated impulse-response functions.A combination of...

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

Flaig, Gebhard; Plötscher, 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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