Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the US Health Insurance Industry

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1973 • 2,303 citations

Inter-industry studies of structure and performance

1987 • 896 citations

Competition and Price Dispersion in the U.S. Airline Industry

1994 • 679 citations

Do Mergers Increase Product Variety? Evidence from Radio Broadcasting

2001 • 378 citations

How Does Managed Care Do It?

2000 • 319 citations

Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market

2009 • 306 citations

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1990 • 305 citations

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2003 • 295 citations

Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

2007 • 246 citations

Spatial Differentiation and Vertical Mergers in Retail Markets for Gasoline

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Market Power in the Retail Food Industry: Evidence from Vermont

1986 • 237 citations

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2005 • 215 citations

Strategic integration of hospitals and physicians

2005 • 189 citations

Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

2010 • 180 citations

The effect of market structure on HMO premiums

1995 • 170 citations

Insurer‐hospital bargaining: negotiated discounts in post‐deregulation connecticut

2003 • 159 citations

Endogeneity in the Concentration--Price Relationship: Causes, Consequences, and Cures

1993 • 151 citations

Consolidation And The Transformation Of Competition In Health Insurance

2004 • 137 citations

Competitive Outcomes in Product-Differentiated Oligopoly

2002 • 126 citations

Deregulated airline markets

1990 • 124 citations

The Effect of Mergers in Search Markets: Evidence from the Canadian Mortgage Industry

2014 • 109 citations

Hospital prices and market structure in the hospital and insurance industries

2010 • 98 citations

PRICES AND ENDOGENOUS MARKET STRUCTURE IN OFFICE SUPPLY SUPERSTORES^*

2008 • 78 citations

The Effect of Local Competition on Admission Prices in the U.S. Motion Picture Exhibition Market

2005 • 69 citations

A new test of the price-concentration relationship in grocery retailing

1990 • 42 citations

Do HMOs have monopsony power?

2001 • 37 citations

Competition in Health Insurance Markets: Limitations of Current Measures for Policy Analysis

2006 • 28 citations

Price-Concentration Studies: There You Go Again

2004 • 28 citations

The welfare economics of a health plan merger

1994 • 27 citations

The welfare impact of HMO mergers

2001 • 22 citations

The functional relationship between prices and market concentration: the case of the banking industry

1991 • 9 citations

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2005 • 7 citations

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2009 • 7 citations