A big new paper with @zackcooperYale @stuartcraig @LevKlarnet, Ithai Lurie, and Corbin Miller: "Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital Mergers" With excellent recent WSJ coverage by @_melaevans:

RT @AEAInformation: Congratulations to Manasi Deshpande, @talgross, and @yalunsu who were recognized for the AEJ Best Paper Award for Appli…

RT @MattAFiedler: Apropos of the ongoing conversation about health care administrative costs, resharing my testimony to Senate Budget on th…

RT @zackcooperYale: My new paper - Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector? - with @zarekcb @stuartcraig & @Lev…

@dp_oneill They’re reporting “adjusted rates” so maybe the adjustment is wildly throwing off the absolute level. Either way seems very important to publish the raw rates! Especially when adjustment is filtered through a parametric model

RT @zackcooperYale: This infographic tells the story of why this merger is going to raise hospital prices, lower local wages, and lead to j…

RT @zackcooperYale: Based on my work with @zarekcb @stuartcraig and @LevKlarnet, this deal would hurt the local economy...$40 million in lo…

RT @zackcooperYale: My estimate, based on work with @zarekcb @stuartcraig and @LevKlarnet in AER Insights: the deal would likely lead to l…

RT @zackcooperYale: 🚨New op-ed in the @indystar w/@GloriaSachdev (@EmplyrsForumIN) on decision @StateHealthIN faces re: giving a COPA to th…

@dp_oneill The dominant way of thinking about hospital competition *does* assume that different service lines are effectively different markets. (that's how the FTC started winning again!) but FTC is already not challenging enough cases; there is no hope for service-line-level enforcement.

RT @pauldemko: Amazing reporting on what can happen when a hospital has monopoly power: “What we’re starting to see is that many of our loc…

RT @luca_maini: Research update: we have a new version of our pharma M&A paper! AND, we posted the data we collected on m&a deals. Links be…

RT @maggieshi311: @zarekcb @GottliebEcon @BeckerFriedman Link to application here:

RT @maggieshi311: Come work with me, @zarekcb, and @GottliebEcon on health economics research at UChicago as a @BeckerFriedman Research Pro…

@timothyjlayton @Avik True, and I agree, but the fundamental distortion here is the existence of the ESHI market right? In its absence the redistribution from young to old and healthy to sick through pricing restrictions would at the very least have less peculiar incidence.

@anup_malani @ben_golub This is unfortunately the problem with Landsburg’s textbook (and as far as I can tell all of the Chicago-style textbooks): an emphasis on cleverness and gotcha moments—or, worse, trying to be cutely controversial—rather than trying to actually reach students.

In fact, having internal faculty frequently evaluate each other is probably going to lead to a collusive equilibrium likely to reinforce all the issues stated here, not dissipate them…

RT @BeckerFriedman: Rising health care prices are passed onto employers as higher insurance premiums. The result? ⬇️ employment ⬇️ wages…