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This paper provides a guide to understanding physician claims data. Physician claims data reflect the prices and quantity of procedures provided by physicians and billed to insurers. These data are often used by policy analysts, legal professionals, and academics to analyze price dynamics in...
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options. Ultimately, these interdisciplinary economic theories can improve antitrust analysis by helping us understand first …
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planning) or price (all-payer regulation). At the same time, health care markets have been subject to antitrust enforcement …. Recent years have seen a shift away from regulatory policies and toward competition. Antitrust policy towards health care … markets has become much more vigorous since the early 1970s. Antitrust is intended to ensure the efficient functioning of …
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planning) or price (all-payer regulation). At the same time, health care markets have been subject to antitrust enforcement …. Recent years have seen a shift away from regulatory policies and toward competition. Antitrust policy towards health care … markets has become much more vigorous since the early 1970s. Antitrust is intended to ensure the efficient functioning of …
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groups, economists, antitrust lawyers, the business community, farmers, ranchers, and academics as the agriculture workshops … have the potential to distract antitrust analysis from its core mission: protecting competition and consumer welfare. While … imperfect, the economic approach to antitrust that has generated remarkable improvements in outcomes over the last fifty years …
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important place in antitrust, avoiding the extreme positions of the two once reigning schools of antitrust policy. At one …, already in 1978 Areeda and Turner produced the first volumes of the Antitrust Law treatise, which completely repudiated the … is held by separate firms with complementary outputs. Antitrust is relevant in two ways. First, private arrangements can …
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This comment was filed with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on December 31, 2009, as "Comments Regarding … Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy" in response to the DOJ/USDA request for public comments … for the agencies' joint workshops on antitrust issues in the agricultural sector. Regarding firm size and integration, it …
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We describe a classroom experiment that illustrates the concepts of market power and the Lerner Index. Students are organized in groups, each making a decision for a monopolist. Monopolists face different (unknown) demand curves, each with a different (constant) elasticity. Through repetition,...
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The combination of leniency programmes, high sanctions, complaints from customers and private actions for damages, has proven very successful at uncovering and punishing cartel agreements in the US. Countless jurisdictions are being encouraged to adopt these 'conventional' enforcement tools, in...
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, necessarily, particular features of the products and services used for acquiring and delivering that attention. Antitrust analysis … anticompetitive effects. Most importantly, antitrust analysis should focus on competition for seeking and providing attention rather … among attention rivals does not imply that antitrust should reduce the vigor with which it examines mergers and exclusionary …
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