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Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, and the Second-Best in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin; Haas-Wilson, Deborah; Vogt, William B. - 2000
The nature, and normative properties, of competition in health care markets has long been the subject of much debate. In this paper we consider what the optimal benchmark is in the presence of moral hazard effects on consumption due to health insurance. Intuitively, it seems that imperfect...
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Strengthening competition in Poland
Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - 2014
Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been …
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Iceland
Laubach, Thomas - 2005
This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory framework, and suggests directions for further improvement. Given the size of the economy, efficiency considerations dictate high concentration in many markets, and preventing...
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Competition and Productivity in the UK and U.S. Tobacco Industries, 1879-1939
Zitzewitz, Eric - 2001
structure on firm conduct and productivity in a rapidly innovating industry. Both industries were competitive in the 1880s, and … formation of the Tobacco Trust in 1890, U.S. productivity growth slowed and the UK assumed the productivity lead. Productivity …-trust action in 1911. This case provides examples of competition leading to more rapid productivity growth through both more rapid …
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Persistent media bias
Baron, David P. - In: Journal of public economics 90 (2006) 1/2, pp. 1-36
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Platform Competition with Free Entry of Sellers
Etro, Federico - 2021
We study platforms competing in commissions on revenues of sellers engaged in monopolistic competition, as the app providers on the app stores of iPhones and Android devices. Free entry of sellers on each platform generates multihoming superstars and a long tail of singlehoming sellers....
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Regulating platform competition in markets with network externalities : will predatory pricing restrictions increase social welfare?
Atad, Ohad; Yehezkel, Yaron - 2022
We consider a dynamic platform competition in a market with network externalities. The incumbent platform enjoys a focal position such that consumers expect other consumers to join it, while the entrant platform may enjoy a quality advantage. We examine the effect of an antitrust policy that...
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Tying in Two-Sided Markets with Multi-Homing
Choi, Jay Pil - 2021
This paper analyzes the effects of tying arrangements on market competition and social welfare in two-sided markets when economic agents can engage in multi-homing; that is, they can participate in multiple platforms in order to reap maximal network benefits. The model shows that tying induces...
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Search and equilibrium prices : theory and evidence from retail diesel
Cabral, Luís M. B.; Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2019 - This version: March 27, 2019
We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We develop a theoretical model and show that average price is a U-shaped function of the measure of searchers: prices are highest when there are no searchers (local monopoly power)...
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Bank fees, aftermarkets, and consumer behavior
Adams, Robert M. - 2017
Fees for banking services have been a policy concern for over 20 years and the subject of several government agencies studies, which focused on the magnitude, incidence, or disclosure of such fees. Using a sample of single market banks, I study the relationship between market-level consumer...
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