estimates to evaluate the effects of hospital mergers. We find that MCO bargaining restrains hospital prices significantly. The …We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …

financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …

Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive …

, if the debtor country is unable to meet debt obligations, a bargaining regime determines the amount of debt repayment. In … the context of a two-country real trade model, debt repayment is equal to the trade surplus of the debtor. The outcome of … the bargaining game will therefore be dependent (among other things) on the level of production in the debtor country. In …

This paper investigates marriage market equilibrium under the assumption that Bargaining In Marriage (BIM) determines … backwards induction. The marriage market determines both who marries and, among those who marry, who marries whom. Bargaining in …

This paper develops and estimates a search and bargaining model designed to measure the welfare loss associated with …

establishing the Alliance/Nash Equilibrium as a base point. From that point they apply either the principles of the Nash Bargaining …

We study patterns of behavior in bilateral bargaining situations using a rich, new dataset describing over 88 million … listings from eBay's Best Offer platform, with back-and-forth bargaining occurring in over 25 million of these listings. We … document patterns of behavior and relate them to "rational" and "psychological" theories of bargaining and find that bargaining …

This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any …