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Dissecting the Sinews of Power : International Trade and the Rise of Britain's Fiscal-Military State, 1689-1823

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Hutková, Karolina; Leucht, Lukas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We evaluate the role of taxes on trade in the development of imperial Britain's fiscal-military state. Influential work, e.g., Brewer's (1989) "Sinews of Power," attributed increased fiscal capacity to the taxation of domestic, rather than traded, goods: excise revenues, coarsely associated with...

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Energy utilities and competitiveness

FitzGerald, John D. (contributor); … - 1995

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Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin - 1999

In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been …

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Foreign Competition and the UK

Lake, Arthur W. - 1976

host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …

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Death by Market Power : Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin - 2010

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition … competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …

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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System

Cebul, Randall D. - 2008

Many goods and services can be readily provided through a series of unconnected transactions, but in health care close coordination over time and within care episodes improves both health outcomes and efficiency. Close coordination is problematic in the US health care system because the...

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What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets?

Gaynor, Martin - 2006

The goal of this paper is to identify key issues concerning the nature of competition in health care markets and its … topic. The theoretical literature in economics on competition and quality, the theoretical literature in health economics on … this topic, and the empirical findings on competition and quality in health care markets are surveyed and their findings …

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Competition and Innovation : An Inverted U Relationship

Aghion, Philippe - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is … developed in which competition may increase the incremental profit from innovating; on the other hand, competition may also … competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape. Second, the equilibrium degree of technological neck-and-neckness' among …

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Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin - 1998

implications of these changes for the nature and consequences of competition in health care markets. In this paper, we summarize … industry for competition, efficiency, and public policy. As will become apparent, this area offers a number of intriguing …

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