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Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Controls

Dafny, Leemore - 2006

This paper investigates whether managers who fail to exploit regulatory loopholes are vulnerable to replacement. We use the U.S. hospital industry in 1985-1996 as a case study. A 1988 change in Medicare rules widened a pre-existing loophole in the Medicare payment system, presenting hospitals...

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Global Agricultural Value Chains and Structural Transformation

Lim, Sunghun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Since the mid-1900s, agricultural global value chains (AGVCs) have grown rapidly and transformed the nature of agri-food production around the world. Little is known, however, about how participation in AGVCs changes the structure of participating economies. Using a constructed panel dataset...

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A Framework to Compare Environmental Policies

Fullerton, Don - 2001

This paper builds a single model that can be used to show efficiency and distributional effects of eight different … approaches can be designed to have the same efficiency effects, even while they have different distributional effects. For … efficiency, enforcement capabilities, and political feasibility). The paper ends with a discussion of likely trade-offs among …

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Taxation and Economic Efficiency

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2001

This paper analyzes the distortions created by taxation and the features of tax systems that minimize such distortions (subject to achieving other government objectives). It starts with a review of the theory and practice of deadweight loss measurement, followed by characterizations of optimal...

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The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement

Cutler, David M. - 2000

whether it was a move toward economic efficiency using data from Massachusetts. Medicaid spending will fall, but only a modest … amount ($0.1 billion). The efficiency issue turns mainly on the treatment of health benefits from reduced smoking induced by … the settlement. We conclude that the settlement was a move towards economic efficiency …

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Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations

Dafny, Leemore - 2000

One of the benefits commonly claimed for expanded public health insurance is improved efficiency of medical care …

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Market Provision of Public Goods : The Case of Broadcasting

Anderson, Simon P. - 2000

This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...

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An Efficiency Approach to the Evaluation of Policy Changes

Coate, Stephen - 1999

This paper describes an efficiency approach to the evaluation of policy changes. Rather than comparing the utility …

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Green Taxes and Administrative Costs : The Case of Carbon Taxation

Smulders, Sjak - 1999

This paper explores the trade-off between incentive effects and administrative costs associated with the implementation of various environmental tax instruments, with special reference to carbon taxes. In a simple model, we show under what conditions it is optimal to use input rather than...

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Efficiency Effects on the U.S. Economy from Wireless Taxation

Hausman, Jerry - 1999

This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are … thereby suppress demand for service, imposing an efficiency loss on the economy of $0.53 for every $1 currently raised in … taxes. Prospective taxes will impose an efficiency loss of $0.72-$1.14 per additional dollar of tax revenue raised …

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