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Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges : Price Competition and Subsidy Design under the ACA
Tebaldi, Pietro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In government-sponsored health insurance, subsidy design affects market outcomes. First, holding premiums fixed, subsidies determine insurance uptake and average cost. Insurers then respond to these changes, adjusting premiums. Combining data from the first four years of the California ACA...
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The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Busso, Matias - 2014
The potential benefits of demand side interventions may leak into the profits of suppliers whenever there is market power. In those situations, governments could attempt to regulate the market or to increase competition. We provide the first experimental evidence on the effect of increased...
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Antitrust and Regulation
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2007
Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have … operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests … antitrust and regulation. Antitrust and regulation can also be viewed as complements in which regulation and antitrust assign …
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Restrict the Middleman? : Quantitative Models of PBM Regulations and Their Consequences
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper provides the first quantitative economic models of pharmacy benefit management regulation. The price … "rebate traps." Applicable types of regulation include rebate rules, such as the HHS rebate rule and the Insulin Act …
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Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do It
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2009
In this article, I explain the inadequacy of our current state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of antitrust policy towards mergers. I then discuss the types of data that one must collect in order to be able to perform an analysis of the effectiveness of antitrust policy. There are two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463928
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Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity
Babina, Tania; Barkai, Simcha; Jeffers, Jessica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 1971 and 2018. Using restricted establishment-level microdata from the U.S. Census, we compare the economic outcomes of a non-tradable industry in states...
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479479
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Designing Disability Insurance Reforms : Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits
Haller, Andreas - 2020
policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481455
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Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation
Kleven, Henrik - 2020
Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by...
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Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients : Evidence from a Notch Design
Ruh, Philippe - 2018
below the threshold. Exploiting such a notch in Austria, we provide transparent and credible identification of the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452891