An Access-oriented Negotiated Fee Schedule

An Intermediation Shill-Deterrent Fee Schedule (SDFS)

Internet-based online auctions provide unprecedented opportunities for sellers to submit shill bids. Shill bidding increases the seller’s expected utility but deceives buyers and damages auctioneers’ reputation. Because the anonymity of the Internet makes it difficult to catch shill bidders through statistical analysis or encryption, we suggest that the most effective approach is to make it une...

Asynchronous Negotiated-access

Scheduling access to people and selectively sharing the state of one’s activities are essential elements of collaborating with others. These processes are fundamental to arranging face-to-face meetings and coordinating access to shared information. Examples include scheduling meetings, contacting others in real time (by phone or instant messaging), and checking on the changing status of a joint...

Medicaid Fees and the Medicare Fee Schedule: An Update

This study analyzes changes in Medicaid physician fees from 1990 to 1993. Data were collected on maximum allowable Medicaid fees in 1993 and compared with similar 1990 Medicaid data as well as the fully phased-in Medicare Fee Schedule (MFS). The results suggest that, on average, Medicaid fees have grown roughly 14 percent, but considerable variation continues to exist in how well Medicaid progr...

Impact of the Medicare physician fee schedule.

Negotiated Third Party Access – an Industrial Organisation Perspective

In the course of the liberalization of the European energy markets, the German government opted – diverging from all other European countries – for Negotiated Third-Party Access. In this article we analyze if this institutional regime could theoretically lead to efficient market outcomes. Above that, we empirically review whether certain aspects of the actual implementation, the publication of ...