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The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable Television

Goolsbee, Austan; Petrin, Amil - 2021

This paper examines the introduction of Direct Broadcast Satellites as an alternative to cable television and the welfare gains such satellites generated for consumers. The extent to which satellites compete with cable has become an important issue in the debate over re-regulation of cable...

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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Greenstone, Michael - 2014

The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...

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Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition an Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets

Bushnell, James - 2007

This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...

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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry : Domestic Production and Foreign Competition

Davis, Joseph H. - 2007

1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the …

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Health Plan Payment in U.S. Marketplaces : Regulated Competition with a Weak Mandate

Layton, Timothy J. - 2017

of the individual insurance market, the Marketplaces invoke many of the principles of regulated competition including … the tools of regulated competition. We then discuss ways in which the Marketplace model deviates from the more …

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Market Power and Price Discrimination in the U.S. Market for Higher Education

Epple, Dennis - 2017

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate an equilibrium model of private and public school competition that can …

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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System

Cebul, Randall - 2009

Many goods and services can be readily provided through a series of unconnected transactions, but in health care close coordination over time and within care episodes improves both health outcomes and efficiency. Close coordination is problematic in the US health care system because the...

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Hospital Competition, Quality, and Expenditures in the U.S. Medicare Population

Colla, Carrie - 2016

Theoretical models of competition with fixed prices suggest that hospitals should compete by increasing quality of care … for diseases with the greatest profitability and demand elasticity. Most empirical evidence regarding hospital competition … within hospitals across quality measures. And second, while we replicate the standard result that greater competition leads …

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Industry Structure, Segmentation, and Competition in the U.S. Hotel Industry

Butters, R. Andrew - 2019

, quality competition came more in the form of costs that vary with hotel size, and less in the form of costs that are fixed …

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How the Changing Market Structure of U.S. Higher Education Explains College Tuition

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021

autarkies" to a nationally integrated market. I demonstrate that the results of increased competition were" what industrial …

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