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Dynamic Pricing Regulation and Welfare in Insurance Markets
Aizawa, Naoki; Ko, Ami - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While the traditional role of insurers is to provide protection against idiosyncratic risks of individuals, insurers themselves face substantial uncertainties due to aggregate shocks. To prevent insurers from passing through aggregate risks to consumers, governments have increasingly adopted...
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The Dynamic Impact of Market Integration : Evidence from Renewable Energy Expansion in Chile
Gonzales, Luis E.; Ito, Koichiro; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Effective and economical expansion of renewable energy is one of the most urgent and important challenges of addressing climate change. However, many countries are facing a problem because existing network infrastructures (i.e., transmission networks) were not originally built to accommodate...
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Optimal Urban Transportation Policy : Evidence from Chicago
Almagro, Milena; Barbieri, Felipe; Castillo, Juan Camilo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We characterize optimal urban transportation policies in the presence of congestion and environmental externalities and evaluate their welfare and distributional effects. We present a framework of a municipal government that implements different transportation equilibria through its choice of...
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Electricity Retail Rate Design in a Decarbonized Economy : An Analysis of Time-Of-Use and Critical Peak Pricing
Schittekatte, Tim; Mallapragada, Dharik; Joskow, Paul L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Currently, most U.S. electricity consumers pay a constant price per kWh consumed that accounts for most of their bill. Ongoing developments in the power system increase efficiency gains that can be made from exposing consumers to widely varying wholesale spot prices. Pure spot pricing is not...
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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2010
Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non … effects are due to increased competition for local resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462515
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Strengthening State Capacity : Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age
Aneja, Abhay; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use newly digitized records from the U.S. Post Office to study how strengthening state capacity affects public service delivery and innovation in over 2,800 cities between 1875-1905. Exploiting the gradual expansion of a major civil service reform, cities with a reformed postal office...
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Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment : New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007
The spatial mismatch hypothesis posits that employment decentralization isolated urban blacks from work opportunities. This paper focuses on one large employer that has remained in the central city over the twentieth century - the U.S. Postal Service. We find that blacks substitute towards...
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Letter Grading Government Efficiency
Chong, Alberto - 2012
We mailed letters to non-existent business addresses in 159 countries (10 per country), and measured whether they come back to the return address in the US and how long it takes. About 60% of the letters were returned, taking over 6 months, on average. The results provide new objective...
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Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Dubois, Pierre; Gandhi, Ashvin; Vasserman, Shoshana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The United States spends twice as much per person on pharmaceuticals as European countries, in large part because prices are much higher in the US. This fact has led policymakers to consider legislation for price controls. This paper assesses the effects of a US international reference pricing...
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Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales : The Role of Structural Transformation
Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
have risen by about 9% by 2017. Instead, it fell by 5%. Falling local employment concentration may intensify competition … for recent market entrants. Simultaneously, rising within industry-by-geography concentration may weaken competition for …
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