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Endogenous Trade Protection and Exchange Rate Adjustment
Auray, Stéphane - 2019
This paper explores the relationship between exchange rate adjustment and trade policy in a simple New Keynesian open … economy macro model. We show that movement in exchange rates have a direct implication for trade policy when governments … choose tariffs endogenously. In particular, we show that the strategic incentive to impose trade restrictions is greater …
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Broadband Internet Access and Health Outcomes : Patient and Provider Responses in Medicare
Van Parys, Jessica; Brown, Zach Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care markets. Online information may improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions and helps patients choose higher quality providers or causes providers to improve quality. We examine how health...
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Gaming and Effort in Performance Pay
Bertuzzi, Luca; Eliason, Paul J.; Heebsh, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Health insurers often tie payments to providers' quality of care. Although payers do this to elicit more effort from providers, some providers may game the system by avoiding patients who would cause their quality scores to fall. We use annual variation in the criteria for Medicare's Quality...
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Producing Health : Measuring Value Added of Nursing Homes
Einav, Liran; Finkelstein, Amy; Mahoney, Neale - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a stylized model that allows us to estimate a value-added measure for nursing homes ("SNFs") which accounts for patient selection both into and out of a SNF. We use the model, together with detailed data on the physical and mental health of about 6 million Medicare SNF patients...
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Quality Regulation and Competition : Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
Atal, Juan Pablo; Cuesta, José Ignacio; Sæthre, Morten - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
also have adverse effects on market structure. We study this trade-off in the context of pharmaceutical bioequivalence … firms. We compare minimum quality standards to quality disclosure and other designs of quality regulation …
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Quality Signaling and Demand for Renewable Energy Technology : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Coville, Aidan; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Reichert, Arndt R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Solar technologies have been associated with private and social returns, but their technological potential often remains unachieved because of persistently low demand for high-quality products. In a randomized field experiment in Senegal, we assess the potential of three types of quality...
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Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing : A q-r Theory
Ellison, Glenn - 2000
This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. It is motivated by the increasing tendency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470945
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Quality Disclosure and Certification : Theory and Practice
Dranove, David - 2010
This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address three key theoretical issues: (i) Why don't sellers...
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Excess Capital Flows and the Burden of Inflation in Open Economies
Desai, Mihir A. - 1997
This paper estimates the efficiency consequences of interactions between nominal tax systems and inflation in open economies. Domestic inflation changes after-tax real interest rates at home and abroad, thereby stimulating international capital movement and influencing domestic and foreign tax...
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Growth and Welfare in A Small Open Economy
Grossman, Gene M. - 1989
both growth and welfare. Growth may increase or decrease, depending upon which sector is promoted by the trade policy. But … an increase in the growth rate is neither necessary nor sufficient for a trade policy to improve welfare. Finally, we …
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