Thursday, January 19, 2006
Lunchtime Notes: Light Reading
by Tom Bozzo
T. Buchmueller, "Price and the health plan choices of retirees"
K. R. Brekke and M. Kuhn, "Direct to consumer advertising in pharmaceutical markets"
F. Benstetter and A. Wambach, "The treadmill effect in a fixed budget system"
RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 36, no. 3 (Autumn '05 — not sure why this just reached us now)
S. Borenstein and S. Holland, "On the efficiency of competitive electricity markets with time-invariant retail prices" (possibly a little gloss on one of the ideas in the late California Prop. 80)
P. Grout and I. Park, "Competitve planned obsolescence"
T. Lyon and J. Mayo, "Regulatory opportunism and investment behavior: Evidence from the U.S. electric utility industry"
J. List and M. Price, "Conspiracies and secret price discounts in the marketplace: Evidence from field experiments" (what better paper to be co-authored by List and Price, eh?)
Journal of Health Economics, vol. 25, no. 1 (2006)
T. Buchmueller, "Price and the health plan choices of retirees"
K. R. Brekke and M. Kuhn, "Direct to consumer advertising in pharmaceutical markets"
F. Benstetter and A. Wambach, "The treadmill effect in a fixed budget system"
RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 36, no. 3 (Autumn '05 — not sure why this just reached us now)
S. Borenstein and S. Holland, "On the efficiency of competitive electricity markets with time-invariant retail prices" (possibly a little gloss on one of the ideas in the late California Prop. 80)
P. Grout and I. Park, "Competitve planned obsolescence"
T. Lyon and J. Mayo, "Regulatory opportunism and investment behavior: Evidence from the U.S. electric utility industry"
J. List and M. Price, "Conspiracies and secret price discounts in the marketplace: Evidence from field experiments" (what better paper to be co-authored by List and Price, eh?)
