Hospitals and Health

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A Retrospective Analysis of the Clinical Quality Effects of the Acquisition of Highland Park Hospital by Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (with Patrick S. Romano), International Journal of the Economics of Business. Also Appears as Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 307 (2011)

In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission brought a legal action retrospectively challenging the 2000 acquisition...

 

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Simulating Hospital Merger Simulations (with Keith J. Brand), Unpublished Draft (2009)

In recent years, researchers have developed a number of new methods for predicting the price...

 

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A Critique of the “Learning about Demand” Defense in Retrospective Merger Cases (with Christopher Garmon), ABA Antitrust Section Economics Committee Newsletter (2008)
 

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I'm as Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take This Anymore: On Indignation and Health Care, Unpublished Draft (2008)

This paper begins with the idea that patients become “indignant” when they are denied care...

 

Miscellaneous Applied Microeconomics

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Better Product at Same Cost, Lower Sales and Lower Welfare (with George Deltas), Under Review at the Journal of Industrial Economics (2011)

We analyze the effect of product quality on the output of a high-quality dominant firm...

 

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Job Insecurity isn't Always Efficient (with Dan Hanner), Revised and Resubmitted to Labour Economics. Also appears as Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 305 (2011)

Workers value job security. If at least some workers value it enough, then it is...

 

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Collusion and the "Old Boys Club" (with Manfred A. Dix), Unpublished Draft (2009)

This paper begins with the assumption that collusion can be sustained by means of sincere...

 

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Ideological Persuasion in the Media (with Patrick DeGraba and Abraham L. Wickelgren), Revise and Resubmit at the Journal Economic Behavior & Organization (2009)

Media outlet owners can modify their outlet’s content so as to persuade audiences to adopt...

 

Development Economics

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The Correlation between Human Capital and Morality and its Effect on Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence (with Stephen Knack), Accepted Subject to Minor Revisions at the Journal of Comparative Economics. Also Appears as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5720 (2011)

We incorporate morality--defined as lower utility from consuming goods obtained through appropriative rather than productive...