model of the division of labor in general medicine that views the use of hospitalists as balancing the costs of coordinating … care across physicians in the hospitalist model against physicians' costs switching between ambulatory and hospital …

coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a "hierarchical production function" in which output is the product of … coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a partner's skill …

distribution network upgrades. In contrast, centrally managed charging solves the coordination problem, reducing transformer …

This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United …

, are the most overt costs of war. They are also relatively short-lived. The costs of war borne by combatants and their … that a significant component of the public costs associated with U.S. wars are long-lived. One third to one half of the … total present value of historical war costs have been absorbed by benefits distributed over the remaining life spans of …

This paper examines issues in the current debate over coordination between fiscal and monetary policies. Section I1 … uses the traditional targets-instruments approach to assess the potential gains from greater coordination. Since greater … coordination is often equated with looser money and tighter fiscal policy, two econometric models of the economy are used to …

need for policy coordination: the specific choice of monetary policy limits the set of fiscal policies consistent with …