-firms are incompletely understood. We exploit a historically large leveraged buyout of a national hospital chain to examine how … the full life cycle of PE influences hospital-level revenues, technology sourcing, labor use, and financial performance …. We find permanent improvements in hospital volumes and revenues. PE also reduces growth in full-time employees, with a …

exogenous variation in Medicare payment rates generated by two policies under the Affordable Care Act: the Hospital Readmission … Reduction Program (HRRP) and the Hospital Value Based Purchasing (HVBP) program. We merge rich hospital-level information to … claim, or $82,000 per hospital, based on an average hospital penalty of nearly $146,000. We find the largest increases in …

We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of …

markets, fixed exchange rates, and monetary autonomy; rather, it is constrained to choosing no more than two of these three …, afford a full measure of monetary policy autonomy. Our results confirm that extensive capital controls or floating exchange … rates enable a country to have monetary autonomy, as suggested by the trilemma. Partial capital controls, however, do not …

effects on imports can also occur. These models when calibrated to 1995 data for Vietnam also suggest quantitatively much …

across regions with varying levels of local economic development in Vietnam. First, we find that informal businesses exhibit …

We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school … enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff …

stages of the pandemic. We exploit a unique data covering firms from Brazil, Senegal, and Vietnam using a treatment effect …