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The Role of Agents and Brokers in the Market for Health Insurance
Karaca-Mandic, Pinar - 2013
Health insurance markets in the United States are characterized by imperfect information, complex products, and substantial search frictions. Insurance agents and brokers play a significant role in helping employers navigate these problems. However, little is known about the relation between the...
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An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry
Blanchflower, David G.; Wainwright, Jon S. - 2021
The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...
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Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process
Edlin, Aaron S. - 2011
Although antitrust courts sometimes stress the competitive process, they have not deeply explored what that process is. Inspired by the theory of the core, we explore the idea that the competitive process is the process of sellers and buyers forming improving coalitions. Much of antitrust can be...
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Bailouts and the Preservation of Competition
Roberts, James W. - 2011
Governments rescue private companies partly to prevent other firms from gaining excessive market power. However, if failing firms exit, new entry may limit remaining firms' market power if there are potential entrants who can be as effective competitors as the firms leaving the market. We...
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Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2010
We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school stayers by luring the best students to other schools. This framework results in a simple formula showing that the "cream-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of...
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Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance
Asker, John - 2010
incumbent manufacturer transfer profits to retailers. If entry is accommodated, upstream competition leads to fierce down …- stream competition and the breakdown of RPM. Hence, via RPM, retailers internalize the effect of accommodating entry on the … effect of a retailer cartel. We also consider the effect of imperfect competition. Empirical and policy implications are …
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Valuing Identity
Fryer, Roland G. - 2010
in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient policy to raise the status in this competition of a disadvantaged …
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Do Competitive Work Places Deter Female Workers? A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment on Gender Differences in Job-Entry Decisions
Flory, Jeffrey - 2010
different compensation regimes. By varying the role that individual competition plays in setting the wage, we are able to … explore whether competition, by itself, can cause differential job entry. The data highlight the power of the compensation …
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Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel Data Evidence for OECD Countries
Bourlès, Renaud - 2010
the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over …
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Why Isn't Mexico Rich?
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment, achieving fiscal discipline, and privatizing state owned enterprises. Despite these efforts, the country's economic growth has been lackluster, trailing that of many other...
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