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As hospitals consolidate, more market power is needed to bargain for better prices.
Masahiko Aoki, a SIEPR Senior Fellow and an Emeritus Professor of Economics, forged new ways of thinking about organizations, institutions and East Asian economies. He died in Palo Alto on July 15. Stanford Report, July 17, 2015
SIEPR Senior Fellow Nick Bloom is quoted in the WSJ article discussing how measuring productivity with new goods and services, especially digital goods, is very difficult.
Op-Ed co-authored by Gregory Rosston, Director of Public Policy Program and Deputy Director of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
The article highlights the activities of Govern For California, a group co-founded by David Crane, SIEPR Research Scholar. David, who is the group President, served as a special advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and as a CalSTRS board member.
Quotes David Crane, Lecturer in Public Policy and Research Scholar at Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, on the problems facing pension funds across the country.
Cites policy brief written by SIEPR Senior Fellow Mark Duggan, whose research suggests a link between expanded access to disability benefits and a reduction in the labor force participation among veterans.
Features research co-authored by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom (with a Stanford PhD student David Price and two others), looking into the role of firms in the rising U.S. earnings inequality.
David Crane, Lecturer in Public Policy and Research Scholar at Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, is among panelists interviewed by Scott Shafer about revised California budget.
Cites research by Caroline Hoxby, Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and SIEPR, and Christopher Avery of Harvard, which suggested that many low-income students don't apply to more selective schools because they lack necessary information or encouragement; also notes... Read More