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Common Practice : Spillovers from Medicare on Private Health Care

Barnett, Michael L. - 2020

Efforts to raise the productivity of the U.S. health care system have proceeded slowly. One potential explanation is the fragmentation of payment across insurers. Each insurer's efforts to improve care could influence how doctors practice medicine for other insurers, leading to unvalued...

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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : the Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions

Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016

among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy … of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could …

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Productivity Effects of Tve Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2021

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …

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The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China

Bai, Chong-En; Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Song, Zheng (Michael); … - 2021

We use administrative registration records with information on the owners of all Chinese firms to document their connections through equity investments. We show that the largest private owners have direct equity ties with state owners, the next largest private owners have equity ties with...

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Toward an Efficiency Rationale for the Public Provision of Private Goods

Fang, Hanming - 2008

This paper shows that public provision of private goods may be justified on pure efficiency grounds in an environment where individuals consume both public and private goods. The government's involvement in the provision of private goods provides it with information about individuals' private...

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Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads : A Theory of Environmental Offsets

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2014

This paper examines voluntary provision of a public good that is motivated, in part, to compensate for other activities that diminish the public good. Markets for environmental offsets, such as those that promote carbon neutrality to minimize the impact of climate change, provide an increasingly...

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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Epple, Dennis N. - 2018

Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...

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Public Versus Private Risk Sharing

Krueger, Dirk - 2010

Can public insurance through redistributive income taxation improve the allocation of risk in an economy in which private risk sharing is limited? The answer depends crucially on the fundamental friction that limits private risk sharing in the first place. If risk sharing is incomplete because...

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The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications : Better Data, Somewhat Different Results

Lang, Kevin - 2013

Using the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey and Transcript Data, we find no statistically significant differential return to certificate or Associate's degrees between for-profits and not-for-profits. Point estimates suggest a slightly lower return to a for-profit certificate and a slightly...

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Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence

David, Paul A.; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Toole, Andrew A. - 2021

Is public R&D spending complementary and thus "additional" to private R&D spending, or does it substitute for and tend to "crowd out" private R&D? Conflicting answers are given to this question. We survey the body of available economectric evidence accumulated over the past 35 years. A framework...

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