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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...
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Through changing the connection between insurance and employment, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has affected people's incentives to obtain education. We employ a triple-difference strategy comparing counties with different levels of uninsurance pre-ACA and in states with different Medicaid...
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In this study, we test whether the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to be in the armed forces and to have military health insurance. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach, comparing the outcomes of young adults targeted by...
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In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...
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framework how unsustainable the public finances of France, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. are, given their demographic …
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. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …
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Many competitive health insurance markets adjust payments to participating health plans according to their enrollees' risk - including based on diagnostic information. We investigate responses of German health plans to the introduction of morbidity-based risk adjustment in the Statutory Health...
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We explain the recent events in the German market for online access using a model of a regulated monopoly renting phone lines to retailers. Retailers offer either a linear or a flat tariff to consumers. Consumer heterogeneity leads to adverse selectiion. We show why market entry for flatrate...
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This paper reports on ongoing research on the interactions between product regulation and labor market outcomes. In … particular, I summarize work on the employment effects of shop-closing regulation in the retail and other related sectors …. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory …
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This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a … that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially depend on whether the producer faces competition from parallel … imports. While parallel imports improve the bargaining position of the distributor, price regulation counteracts this effect …
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