Introduction to Health Care Quality: Theory, Methods, and Tools
Introduction to Health Care Quality explores the issues of quality management in today's health care environment, and provides clear guidance on new and perennial challenges in the field. The idea of...
View ArticleThe Fix: How Bankers Lied, Cheated and Colluded to Rig the World's Most...
"The first thing you think is where's the edge, where can I make a bit more money, how can I push, push the boundaries. But the point is, you are greedy, you want every little bit of money that you can...
View ArticleHere's How Blockchain Will Eliminate Banks and Democratize Money
Here's How Blockchain Will Eliminate Banks and Democratize Money https://t.co/hgatrhLifj — Jacob Bettany (@j_bettany) January 28, 2017
View ArticleThe Bank, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - BBC World Service
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View ArticleBlackRock's Robot Stock-Pickers Post Record Losses
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View ArticleRedemption risk and cash hoarding by asset managers
Household debt levels relative to GDP have risen rapidly in many countries over the past decade. We investigate the macroeconomic impact of such increases by employing a novel estimation technique...
View ArticleGross Capital Inflows to Banks, Corporates and Sovereigns -- by Stefan...
We construct a new data set for gross capital inflows during 1996-2014 for 85 countries at a quarterly frequency. We decompose debt inflows by borrower type: banks, corporates and sovereigns. Using our...
View ArticleAssignment of Stock Market Coverage -- by Briana Chang, Harrison Hong
Price efficiency plays an important role in financial markets. Firms influence it, particularly when they issue public equity. They can hire a reputable underwriter with a star analyst to generate...
View ArticleSecondary Pharmaceutical Patenting: A Global Perspective -- by Bhaven N....
Pharmaceutical firms' use of secondary patents to extend periods of exclusivity generates concerns among policymakers worldwide. In response, some developing countries have introduced measures to curb...
View ArticleThe (Dis)Advantages of Clearinghouses Before the Fed -- by Matthew S. Jaremski
Operating in individual cities, U.S. clearinghouses were the closest thing to a central bank before 1914, but they only assisted banks that chose to join the association. Using an annual bank-level...
View ArticleHow Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel -- by Justine S....
We use a novel retail panel with more than six years of detailed transaction records to study the effect of participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on household spending....
View ArticleChallenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index -- by Daniel J....
Many in both government and academia are showing renewed interest in developing new measures of national well-being. A new measure that goes "beyond GDP" to comprehensively capture non-market goods...
View ArticleAre Protests Games of Strategic Complements or Substitutes? Experimental...
The decision to protest is strategic: an individual's participation is a function of her beliefs about others' turnout. Models of protest often assume strategic complementarity; however, the challenge...
View ArticlePost Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Theory -- by Roger E.A....
This paper explains the connection between ideas developed in my recent books and papers and those of economists who self-identify as Post Keynesians. My own work is both neoclassical and 'old...
View ArticleConcentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share -- by David Autor, David Dorn,...
The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly...
View ArticleDirect and Spillover Effects of Middle School Vaccination Requirements -- by...
We study the direct and spillover effects of state requirements that middle school youths obtain a tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) booster prior to middle school entry. These mandates...
View ArticleThe Competitive Effects of Transmission Infrastructure in the Indian...
India, seeking to reduce electricity shortages, set up a new power market, in which transmission constraints sharply limit trade between regions. I use confidential bidding data to estimate the costs...
View ArticleThe Business of Business is Business: Why (Some) Firms Should Provide Public...
This note links the commodity bundling literature with the literature on the private provision of public goods. We discuss the potential profitability of bundling strategies for both private firms and...
View ArticlePrice-Linked Subsidies and Health Insurance Markups -- by Sonia P. Jaffe,...
Subsidies in many health insurance programs depend on prices set by competing insurers - as prices rise, so do subsidies. We study the economics of these "price-linked" subsidies compared to "fixed"...
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