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Description:: This dissertation studies three markets with regulated prices. I focus on how these regulations shape the behavior of firms along non-price dimensions. Chapter 1 studies the effects of community rating regulations in the US individual health insurance exchange market. In this market, the Affordable Care Act established community rating areas...
Keyword:: Industrial organization, Health economics, and Applied microeconomics
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Geddes, Eilidh
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16454 and etdadmin_upload_971770

Description:: This dissertation studies three aspects of healthcare market regulation. Chapter 1 studies the optimal design of quality scores for health insurance plans. Regulators often generate quality scores to help consumers with limited information about product quality, as in schooling, healthcare, and financial markets. When designing scores, regulators must not only...
Keyword:: Industrial organization, information design, medicare advantage, star ratings, and quality scores
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Vatter, Benjamin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15997 and etdadmin_upload_896226

Description:: When demand is volatile and uncertain, prices often cannot adequately respond to demand shifts because these shifts are not known when prices are set. In this dissertation, I use the hotel industry--- an industry with a high degree of demand uncertainty and capacity constraints, which amplify the cost of setting...
Keyword:: Pricing, Information economics, Structural econometrics, Hotels, Demand uncertainty, and Industrial organization
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Leisten, Matthew
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_744948 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15150

Description:: This dissertation studies three aspects of health insurance market regulation and design. Chapter 1 (which is joint work with Steve Cicala and Ethan Leiber) studies a regulatory mechanism used to constrain insurer market power. The mechanism targets health insurers' Medical Loss Ratio, which is the share of premiums spent on...
Keyword:: Healthcare, Industrial organization, Health insurance, Market design, and Moral hazard
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Marone, Victoria
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_763445 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15242

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