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The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector : Evidence from the English NHS
Janke, Katharina - 2019
We investigate whether top managers affect the performance of large and complex public sector organizations, using as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479802
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Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin - 1998
The health care industry is being transformed. Large firms are merging and acquiring other firms. Alliances and contractual relations between players in this market are shifting rapidly. Within the next few years, many markets are predicted to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472112
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Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin - 2011
This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461449
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Can Governments Do It Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS
Gaynor, Martin - 2011
The literature on mergers between private hospitals suggests that such mergers often produce little benefit. Despite this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting on behalf of the public, and justified on the grounds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461049
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Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service
Gaynor, Martin - 2012
The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460086
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How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail : Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Goehring, Grant; Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Public health interventions often involve a trade-off between improving health and protecting individual rights. We study this trade-off in a high-stakes setting: prostitution regulations aimed at reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Victorian Britain. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544783
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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?
Greenan, Nathalie - 1999
In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471498
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Narrative Economics
Shiller, Robert J. - 2017
This address considers the epidemiology of narratives relevant to economic fluctuations. The human brain has always … been highly tuned towards narratives, whether factual or not, to justify ongoing actions, even such basic actions as … spending and investing. Stories motivate and connect activities to deeply felt values and needs. Narratives "go viral" and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481063
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Does Monetary Policy Matter? The Narrative Approach after 35 Years
Romer, Christina; Romer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The narrative approach to macroeconomic identification uses qualitative sources, such as newspapers or government records, to provide information that can help establish causal relationships. This paper discusses the requirements for rigorous narrative analysis using fresh research on the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250187
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Causal Narratives
Kendall, Chad W.; Charles, Constantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the generation, transmission, and effects of causal narratives - narratives which describe a (potentially … narratives manipulate the beliefs and actions of subjects in ways predicted by theory. We then show how to 'grow' these types of … narratives organically by asking subjects who observe a dataset of variables to advise future subjects on what actions to take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362000