Efficient Efficiencies Analysis: False Dichotomies, Modeling, and Applications to Health Care. (September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gaynor, Martin
• Other Names: Gundlach Gregory T. guest-editor.; Moss Diana guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Antitrust bulletin. Volume 60:Number 3(2015)
• Page Start: 268
• Page End: 273
• Publication Date: 2015-09
• Subjects: antitrust -- efficiencies -- competitive effects -- health care; Antitrust law -- United States -- Periodicals; Restraint of trade -- United States -- Periodicals; 343.73072105
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X15598592
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-603X

Abstract

Efficiencies analysis is both an important area and one where research efforts can be particularly productive. Thinking of efficiencies and competitive effects together as components of a unified analysis is a productive conceptual framework and one that may yield methodological advances. The increased availability of detailed data, combined with increased attention to methods for analyzing efficiencies, have the potential for increasing insights and advancing enforcement.