CHIS Working Papers Series

Our Working Papers Series fosters research on healthcare and insurance issues across disciplines at the University of Connecticut and its partner institutions.This site is updated as new papers are submitted:

#2001 - 01: Comparing Uninsured and Privately Insured Hospital Patients:
Admission Severity, Health Outcomes, and Resource Use
(Robert C. Bradbury, Joseph H. Golec and Paul M. Steen)
See Health Services Management Research 14, August 2001, pp. 203-210.

#2001 - 02: Do Managed Care and Market Competition Lower Hospital
Nursing Quality?
(Sarah Broome)

#2001 - 03: E-healthcare System Design: A Consumer Preference Approach
(Zhping Walter and Y. Alex Tung)

#2002 - 01: European Public Health Systems Under Stress: Emerging Hybrid Models
(Joseph S. Coyne, Jeffrey A. Kramer & David Alexander Sclar)

#2004 - 01: Are All Parent Companies Created Equal? Chain Membership and Quality
Capabilities in Dialysis Facilities
(Anasua Bhattacharya and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2004 - 02: Market Structure Elements: The Case of California Nursing Homes
Summer 2007 issue of Journal of Health Care Finance
(O. David Gulley and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2004 - 03: The Impact of Market Pressure on Hospital X-Inefficiency: A DEA Approach
Medical Research and Review; (August 2006) 499-524)
(Laurie J. Bates, Kankana Mukherjee and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2004 - 05: The Welfare Loss from Hospital Cost Shifting Behavior: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis
Health Economics; June 2005, pp. 621-626.
(Rexford E. Santerre)

#2004-06: What’s at Stake in Pharmaceutical Reimportation: The Costs in Terms
of Lost Life Years and Lives
The Journal of Law & Public Policy
(John Vernon & Joseph Golec)

#2004-08: Testing for Ownership Mix Efficiency in the Nursing Home
Industry
Inquiry, Winter 2007/2008
(Rexford Santerre and John Vernon)

#2004-09: New Evidence on Drug Price Controls
(John A. Vernon)

#2004-10: What's at Stake in Pharmaceutical Reimportation: Estimating the Long-Run Economic Costs
(John A. Vernon and Joseph H. Golec)

#2004-11: Drug prices and R&D Investment Behavior in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Journal of Law and Economics, April 2005, pp. 195-214.
(John A. Vernon, Carmelo Giaccotto and Rexford Santerre)

#2006-01: Unraveling the Health Insurance Underwriting Cycle
Journal of Insurance Regulation, Spring 2008
(Patricia Born and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2006-02: Examining the Marginal Access Value of Private Health Insurance
Risk Management and Insurance Review, March 2006:53-62
(Rexford E. Santerre)

#2007-01: Health Insurance Research and the Health Economy
Risk Management and Insurance Review, Spring 2009
(Rexford E. Santerre and James Hilliard)

#2007-02: Do Health Insurers Possess Mononopsony Power in the Hospital Services Industry
(International Journal of Health Care Finance & Economics, March 2008
(Laurie J. Bates and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2007-03: How Depressed are US Drug Consumers
Journal of Health Care Finance, Fall 2008
(Rexford E. Santerre and John A. Vernon)

#2007-04: The Demand for Local Health Care Spending: Do District and Independent Public Health Departments Spend Different Amounts?
Medical Care, June 2008
(Laurie J. Bates and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2007-05: Tracking Uninsurance and Inflation in the U.S. Health Economy
(Rexford. E. Santerre)

#2008-01: National and International Tests of the New Drug Cost Offset Theory
Forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal
(Rexford E. Santerre)

#2009-01: The Jurisdiction Size and Local Public Health Spending
Health Services Research, December 2008
(Rexford E. Santerre)

#2009-02: Hospital CEO Performance & Pay
Inquiry, Fall 2010
(Jeffrey A. Kramer and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2010-01: What’s the “Interest” in FDA Drug Advisory Committee Conflicts of Interest?
Fall 2010
(Joseph Golec and John Vernon)

#2010-02: Do Health Insurers Possess Market Power?
Fall 2010
(Laurie J. Bates, James I. Hilliard and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2010-03: Do Hospital Chief Executive Officers Extract Rents from Certificate of Need Laws? Some Preliminary Findings
Fall 2010
(Traci L. Eichmann and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2010-04: Some Economics of Local Public Health Services
Fall 2010
(Laurie J. Bates and Rexford E. Santerre)

#2010-05: Examining the Link between Cash Flow, Market Value, and R&D Investment Spending in the Medical Device Industry
Fall 2010
(Bryan P. Schmutz and Rexford E. Santerre)

 

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