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Macro Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions : States as Agents

Carlino, Gerald - 2013

. We examine the historical experience of federal government transfers to state and local governments and their impact on … incorporates federal intergovernmental transfers, disaggregated into project (e.g., infrastructure) aid and welfare aid, as …. First, aggregate federal transfers to state and local governments are less stimulative than are transfers to households and …

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Fiscal Unions

Werning, Ivan - 2012

operation. The constrained efficient risk sharing arrangement can be implemented by contingent transfers within a fiscal union …

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Accounting for the Duality of the Italian Economy

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Laudati, Dario; Ohanian, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

After 162 years of political unification, Italy still displays large regional economic differences. In 2019, the per capita GDP of Lombardia was 39,700 euros, but Calabria's per capita GDP was only 17,300 euros. We build a two-region, two-sector model of the Italian economy to measure the wedges...

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Competition, Harmonization and Redistribution : Corporate Taxes in Switzerland

Brülhart, Marius; Köthenbürger, Marko; Krapf, Matthias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Switzerland could be considered as a test case for international corporate-tax policy coordination. It is a federation of 26 fiscally autonomous cantons that have been taxing corporate profits more or less independently for over a century. We document and discuss corporate taxation in...

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The Medical Treatment of Depression, 1991-1996 : Productive Inefficiency, Expected Outcome Variations, and Price Indexes

Berndt, Ernst R. - 2000

We examine the price of treating episodes of acute phase major depression over the 1991-1996 time period. We combine data from a large retrospective medical claims data base (MarketScanTM, from the MedStat Group) with clinical literature and expert clinical opinion elicited from a two-state...

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Hospital Ownership and Public Medical Spending

Duggan, Mark - 2000

The hospital market is served by firms that are private for-profit, private not-for-profit, and government-owned and operated. I use a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financing that was intended to improve medical care for the poor to test three theories of organizational behavior. My...

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The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement

Cutler, David M. - 2000

Recent litigation against major tobacco companies culminated in a Master Settlement Agreement' (MSA) under which the participating companies agreed to compensate most states for Medicaid expenses. We outline the terms of the settlement and analyze whether it was a move toward economic efficiency...

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How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement? : Assessing Payments to Massachusetts

Cutler, David M. - 2000

We estimate the increment in Massachusetts Medicaid program costs attributable to smoking from December 20, 1991, to 1998. We describe how our methods improve upon earlier estimates of analogous costs at the national level. Current costs to the Massachusetts Medicaid program approximate the...

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Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations

Dafny, Leemore - 2000

One of the benefits commonly claimed for expanded public health insurance is improved efficiency of medical care delivery, but this claim has little rigorous empirical support. We provide such support by assessing the impact of the Medicaid expansions over the 1983-1996 period on the incidence...

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Medical Liability, Managed Care, and Defensive Medicine

Kessler, Daniel P. - 2000

Because the optimal level of medical malpractice liability depends on the incentives provided by the health insurance system, the rise of managed care in the 1990s may affect the relationship between liability reform and defensive medicine. In this paper, we assess empirically the extent to...

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