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The theory of cost-shifting posits that nonprofit hospitals respond to negative financial shocks by raising prices for privately insured patients. We examine how hospitals responded to the sharp reductions in their endowments caused by the 2008 stock market collapse. We find that the average...
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We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects...
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postwar Japan than generally realized, and also performing well - an unusual finding for a developed economy. Adopted heirs …
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leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves' meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy …
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One of the great unknowns in international finance is the process by which new information influences exchange rate behavior. This paper focuses on one important source of information to the foreign exchange markets, the intervention operations of the G-3 central banks. Previous studies using...
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this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …
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To analyze business fixed investment in Japan, which has been unusually volatile in recent years, we develop and apply …
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Japanese public pension benefits, which were distributed quarterly through February 1990 and every other month since then, induce substantial but predictable income fluctuations. The relative magnitude of the payments combined with the delay between payments yields a stronger test of the...
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base control in Japan …
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therefore overstate the national saving rate. Recently, Hayashi has recalculated Japan's national saving according to the … American Department of Commerce definition and found that from the mid-1970s until today, Japan's national saving rate is … measures are constructed from the balance sheets of the household sectors in the United States and Japan. Far from being equal …
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