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The impacts of private hospital entry on the public market for elective care in England

Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2020

This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England. From 2006, private hospitals were encouraged to enter certain publicly funded markets to compete with existing public hospitals and stimulate quality improvements. Studying elective hip...

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New joints: Private providers and rising demand in the English national health service

Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2016

Reforms to public services have extended consumer choice by allowing for the entry of private providers. The aim is to generate competitive pressure to improve quality when consumers choose between providers. However, for many services new entrants could also affect whether a consumer demands...

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New joints: Private providers and rising demand in the English National Health Service

Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2015

This paper investigates how changes in hospital choice sets affect levels of patient demand for elective hospital care. We exploit a set of reforms in England that opened up the market for publicly-funded patients to private hospitals. Impacts on demand are estimated using variation in distance...

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Comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - 2004

This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relative endowment differences across countries, and consumer taste for variety. The paper demonstrates that firm reactions to trade liberalization generate endogenous Ricardian productivity responses at the...

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Protecting vulnerable consumers in "switching markets"

Beckert, Walter; Siciliani, Paolo - 2018

This paper studies regulatory policy interventions aimed at protecting vulnerable consumers who are disengaged and thus exposed to exploitation. We model heterogeneous consumer switching costs alongside asymmetric market shares. This setting encompasses many markets in which established rms are...

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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated occupations and...

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Comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms

Bernard, Andrew; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2004

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The roles of expected profitability, Tobin's Q and cash flow in econometric models of company investment

Bond, Steve; Klemm, Alexander; Newton-Smith, Rain; … - 2004

Evidence that cash flow has a significant effect on company investment spending, after controlling for Tobin's average Q, has often been interpreted as suggesting the importance of financing constraints. Recent work on measurement error in the Q model casts doubt on this interpretation. It is...

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An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s

Sianesi, Barbara - 2001

The low unemployment rates traditionally enjoyed by Sweden have often been attributed to the country's extensive system …. However, unemployment grew enormously in Sweden when the country was hit by a most severe recession in the early 1990s. This … system. In fact, a labour market programme in Sweden effectively comes as a bundle of two conflicting components: it is …

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Ability, parental background and education policy: Empirical evidence from a social experiment

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2003

Following the great expansion of secondary education in the United States between 1910 and 1940, Sweden was one of the …

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