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Organizational Economics and Physician Practices
Rebitzer, James B. - 2011
Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of physician practices and poorly designed physician incentives. This paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of organizational economics. We begin with a brief...
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Inertia and Incentives : Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Theory
Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2009
Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm%u2019s employees, stressing that the political economy of a firm plays a major role in shaping organizational life and firm behavior. Yet the detailed study of incentive systems has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767471
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Organizations and Trade
Antras, Pol - 2008
We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770584
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The Demand for Coordination
Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Tano - 2021
This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labor is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310259
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Changing Looks and Changing "Discrimination : " the Beauty of Economists
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010
I estimate the effects of changing an ascriptive characteristic on a market outcome while keeping the average amount of information unchanged. Taking advantage of candidates' multiple appearances in elections to office in a professional association and of the presence of different photographs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761919
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Government, Openness and Finance : Past and Present
Demetriadis, Panicos - 2010
We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised … finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137020
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How Does the U.S. Government Finance Fiscal Shocks?
Berndt, Antje - 2010
We develop a method for identifying and quantifying the fiscal channels that help finance government spending shocks …
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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist features disguise the profoundly unfamiliar foundations of "market socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by controlling the career advancement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117212
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On Fiscal Illusion and Ricardian Equivalence in Local Public Finance
Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2012
We re-evaluate two forms of fiscal illusion in local public finance: debt illusion and renter illusion. The Ricardian … Equivalence Theorem for local governments suggests the form of finance of a public program (tax or debt finance) has no effects on … hundreds of open space referenda in the U.S. using a variety of finance mechanisms, we find evidence that households do prefer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107014
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Why Do Emerging Markets Liberalize Capital Outflow Controls? Fiscal Versus Net Capital Flow Concerns
Aizenman, Joshua - 2013
In this paper, we provide empirical evidence on the factors that motivated emerging economies to change their capital outflow controls in the recent decades. Liberalization of capital outflow controls can allow emerging market economies (EMEs) to reduce net capital inflow (NKI) pressures, but...
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