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The Acreage and Borrowing Effects ok Direct Payments Under Uncertainty: A Simulation

Girante, Maria Joana; Goodwin, Barry K. - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2009

We use simulation methods in an expected utility maximization framework to analyze a farmer`s optimal resource allocation in the presence of government payments, decoupled and not. This framework is extended to incorporate the optimal choice of investment levels in the presence of credit...

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Wealth, Debt, Government Payments, and Yield Performance

Girante, Maria Joana; Goodwin, Barry K.; Featherstone, Allen - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2009

We use a large sample of Kansas Farm Management Association farms for eight different crop/practice combinations (dryland and irrigated corn, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat)for 1994 through 2006 to evaluate the determinants of relative yield performance and explore the ability of financial...

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Reference pricing with endogenous generic entry

Brekke, Kurt R.; Canta, Chiara; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2015

In this paper we study the effect of reference pricing on pharmaceutical prices and expenditures when generic entry is … reimbursement scheme based on simple coinsurance. Thus, in a free entry equilibrium, the number of generics is lower under reference …. Allowing for price cap regulation, we show that the negative effect on generic entry can be reversed, and that reference …

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Price Regulation and Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2014

This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the onpatent pharmaceutical market. First, we develop a theory model in which a pharmacy negotiates producer prices with a brand-name firm and then sets retail prices. We show that the effects of price regulation...

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Hospital competition with soft budgets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2012

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...

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Hospital Mergers with Regulated Prices

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2014

We study the effects of a hospital merger using a spatial competition framework with semialtruistic hospitals that invest in quality and expend cost-containment effort facing regulated prices. We find that the merging hospitals always reduce quality, whereas non-merging hospitals respond by...

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Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2008

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital market with regulated prices, considering both the effect of free patient choice (monopoly versus competition) and increased competition through lower transportation costs (increased substitutability). With partially altruistic...

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Competition and quality in regulated markets: a differential-game approach

Brekke, Kurt R.; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2008

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities) taking a differential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling framework, we derive the open-loop solution (providers commit to an...

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Does monetary punishment crowd out pro-social motivation? The case of hospital bed-blocking

Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil; Lurås, Hilde; … - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2008

We study whether the use of explicit monetary incentives might be counter-productive. In particular, we focus on the effect of fining owners of long-term care institutions who prolong length of stay at hospitals. We outline a simple theoretical model, based on motivational crowding theory,...

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Regulation, generic competition and pharmaceutical prices: Theory and evidence from a natural experiment

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2008

We study the impact of regulatory regimes on generic competition and pharmaceutical pricing using a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub-sample of off-patent products. We exploit a detailed panel dataset at product level...

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