Private Interests in "Public Interest" Programming: An Economic Assessment of Broadcaster Incentives

Private Property and Public Interest

Can Private Interests Buy Public Science ? *

Can private interest groups influence the decisions of independent experts to achieve their desired outcomes? This study analyzes a common non-market strategy — lobbying powerful politicians — through which interest groups seek to influence the allocation of public funds in the context of peerreviewed funding for research on rare diseases by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We find evid...

Private Power, Public Interest: An Examination of Search Engine Accountability

As information becomes a critical commodity in modern society, the issue is raised whether the entities that manage access to information, that are tools for public discourse and democracy, should be accountable to the public. The Internet has transformed how we communicate, and search engines have emerged as managers of information, organizing and categorizing content in a coherent, accessible...

Public rationing and private cost incentives

This paper considers a public provider’s strategic use of rationing in a market served by both public and private providers. Such a ‘mixed’ market structure is common in many industries such as health care, telecommunication, postal service, and public utilities. The technology in the private sector exhibits increasing returns: each firm can expend ‘effort’ in the form of fixed cost to reduce t...

Incentives to Dual Practice New Institutional Economic analysis of Canadaâ•Žs mixed public-private health sector

There are many incentives for physicians to dual practice such as an increase in salary, technology usage, or less work hours. By using the New Institutional Economic approach, we examine these incentives of physicians in Canada’s health care system in three scenarios of dual practice. In the first scenario is physicians dual practicing without any government policies or restrictions in the pri...