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The Effects of Hospital Ownership on Medical Productivity
Kessler, Daniel - 2001
To develop new evidence on the effects of hospital ownership and other aspects of hospital market composition on health … of ownership status are quantitatively important. Areas with a presence of for-profit hospitals have approximately 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470181
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Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More Than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2019
We track firms at birth and compare the growth pattern of IPO firms and their birth-matched counterparts. Firms that are larger at birth with faster initial growth are more likely to attain a larger size later in life and go public. Firms in the top percentile of predicted propensity to go...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479586
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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during … the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172175
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Contractual Rigidity and Political Contestability : Revisiting Public Contract Renegotiations
Beuve, Jean; Moszoro, Marian W.; Spiller, Pablo T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We present a model of public procurement in which both contractual flexibility and political tolerance for contractual deviations determine renegotiations. In the model, contractual flexibility allows for adaptation without formal renegotiation while political tolerance for deviations decreases...
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The Public-Private Mix in the Modern Health Care System - Concepts, Issues, and Policy Options Revisited
Chernichovsky, Dov - 2000
Private financing of care can make universal entitlement to care more comprehensive' and complete.' The possible combination -- at the point of service provision -- of privately acquired entitlement with the public entitlement, can impinge, however, upon the goals (e.g. improved health, equity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470856
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The Secular Decline in Private Firm Leverage
Dobridge, Christine L.; Gilje, Erik P.; Whitten, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using firm-level administrative tax data on the 43% of business liabilities in the United States tied to privately held firms, we document dramatic reductions in leverage since the Great Recession. Leverage for the average private firm fell fifteen percent between 2004 and 2018. In contrast,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210062
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Monetary Stimulus Amidst the Infrastructure Investment Spree : Evidence from China's Loan-Level Data
Chen, Kaiji - 2020
We study the impacts of the 2009 monetary stimulus and its interaction with infrastructure spending on credit allocation. We develop a two-stage estimation approach and apply it to China's loan-level data that covers all sectors in the economy. We find that except for the manufacturing sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481311
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Dynamic Labor Demand in China : Public and Private Objectives
Cooper, Russell - 2010
This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two dimensions. First, it uncovers the objectives of public enterprises and compares them to private enterprises. Second, it estimates adjustment costs of these plants and thus their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462159
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The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle : A Firm-level Cross-country Perspective
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2010
China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms, especially in resource sectors, and mis-governance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462224
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Ownership and Wages : Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003
Earle, John S. - 2007
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects … from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked … find that ownership type is highly correlated with characteristics of both workers (education, experience, gender, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465658