This paper studies government and private marketing activities in the context of the AffordableCare Act health insurance marketplace. Using detailed TV advertising data, we presentevidence that government and private advertising are targeted to different geographical areasand provide different...

Nuclear meltdown in Japan and civil society strife across the Middle East highlight the degree to which resilience is core to international peace and security. This article considers the means by which communities can become increasingly resilient through shared best practices across a range of...

Various theories have been proposed to explain the black box of the firm, including command-and-control and agency theory. In a command-and-control situation, directives from management would be consistently effective, whereas if agency theory is the proper model, the ban on work site smoking...

An empirical dynamic oligopoly model of the cigarette industry is developed to study the responses of firms to various anti-smoking policies and to estimate the implications for the policy efficacy. Firms are modeled as coordinating in price and competing in advertising in a dynamic game. The...

This paper provides the first empirical study of cigarette demand using detailed individual level data that includes consumers' cigarette brand choice. By estimating and comparing the effects of advertising and price on cigarette demand for different age groups, I find that young adults are less...

A patent only protects an innovator from others producing the same product, but it does not protect him from others producing better products under new patents. Therefore, one may divide up the source of competition facing an innovator into within-patent competition, which results from...

The study investigated three research questions: First, do organizational changes improve or reduce hospital survival? Second, do core and peripheral organizational changes affect hospital survival differently? Third, how do simultaneous organizational changes affect hospital survival? These...

Organizational change has become the norm rather than the exception among U.S. hospitals. Downsizing, service diversification, and affiliation with healthcare systems are but a few notable examples. In this paper, we review the rationale and consequences of organizational change in U.S....

Our objective is to determine the effect of ownership type (for-profit, not-for-profit, government) on firm conduct in hospital markets. Secondary objectives include estimating hospital demand systems useful for market definition and merger simulation. To this end, we estimate a structural model...

Communities are constantly seeking to manage the damages which are caused by crises. In this regard, health centers have become the most expensive unit of the health system as they provide quick and timely health care services to reduce the effects of unexpected accidents. So, their planning and...