The authors examine how vertical market structures impact the way a tax affects gas prices, using data from gas station contracts with a major Spanish refiner. Find the article in The Economic Journal.
Raúl Bajo Buenestado, Miguel Ángel Borrella-MasJanuary 27, 2022
Hospital at Home programs offer an alternative care model for acutely ill patients to receive intensive at-home treatment. With better policy and operations, can this model work at scale in the United States beyond the pandemic?
Anaeze C. Offodile II, Celynne Balatbat, Kushal T. Kadakia, Victor DzauAugust 23, 2021
Existing innovation in outcomes measurement and resource management, coupled with the competitive pressures of Covid-19, create a unique window for value creation within surgical care, the authors write. Read their article in the Annals of Surgery.
Anaeze C. Offodile II, Kushal T. Kadakia, Lee Fleisher, C.J. Stimson, Thomas AloiaJuly 26, 2020
This article considers the implications of expanding hydroelectricity for war production and strategy using Canada, the United States and Germany during World War II as an example. The article also examines how war-time decisions structured the longer-term evolution of large technological systems: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022819000366
Julie A. Cohn, Matthew Evenden, Marc LandryFebruary 13, 2020
The authors investigate the relationship between the number of freestanding emergency departments entering a local market and overall spending on emergency care. Academic Emergency Medicine: http://bit.ly/2pGwYMw
Freestanding emergency departments in Texas’ largest cities have not alleviated emergency room congestion or improved patient wait times in nearby hospitals, but they can reduce wait times in smaller communities, conclude the authors of this study.
The author determines that in 2016, freestanding emergency departments in Texas were more likely to be in areas that could yield high profits — i.e., areas with significantly higher household incomes — than in areas of high demand.