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How Does Provider Supply and Regulation Influence Health Care Market? Evidence from Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Stange, Kevin - 2013
considerable cross-state variation in their regulation, with some states permitting autonomous practice and others mandating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079756
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Management, Supervision, and Health Care : A Field Experiment
Dunsch, Felipe - 2017
If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in quality. However, little is known about how to increase managerial capital to generate persistent improvements in quality. We present results from a randomized field experiment in 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948444
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Entry Costs and the Macroeconomy
Gutierrez Gallardo, German - 2019
shocks correlate with independently constructed measures of entry regulation and M&A activities. We conclude that entry costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891372
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A Fundamental Enforcement Cost Advantage of the Negligence Rule Over Regulation
Shavell, Steven - 2012
use of the negligence rule is triggered by harm, the rule enjoys an intrinsic enforcement cost advantage over regulation …Regulation and the negligence rule are both designed to obtain compliance with desired standards of behavior, but they … differ in a primary respect: compliance with regulation is ordinarily assessed independently of the occurrence of harm …
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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation
Cicala, Steve - 2014
following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054040
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Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19
Lin, Zhixian - 2020
We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical policy interventions (NPIs) like “stay-at-home” orders on the spread of infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly associated with slower growth of Covid-19 cases....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835108
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Is this Time Different? The Slowdown in Healthcare Spending
Chandra, Amitabh - 2014
cost growth, but our best estimate over the next two decades is that health care costs will grow at GDP plus 1.2 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061817
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Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry : Lessons from Cardiac Surgery
Cutler, David M. - 2010
Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality inputs, as oligopolistic...
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Health Plan Payment in U.S. Marketplaces : Regulated Competition with a Weak Mandate
Layton, Timothy J. - 2017
The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces were introduced in 2014 as part of a reform of the U.S. individual health insurance market. While the individual market represents a small slice of the U.S. population, it has historically been the market segment with the lowest rates of take-up and greatest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955448
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Cross Border Effects of State Health Technology Regulation
Horwitz, Jill R. - 2014
analyses have focused on state-level supply effects, which may reflect either the consequence of CON regulation on supply or … future research on state-based health technology regulation. In addition, it suggests state experiences may not accurately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060697