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The CEA: An Inside Voice for Mainstream Economics

[Symposium: Fifty Years of the Council of Economic Advisers]

By Charles L. Schultze

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1996

After initially concentrating on macroeconomic policy, the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) soon began to provide the president with advice on virtually all issues with economic content. On a wide range of issues there has been a commonality of advice g...

Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Spending Growth

[Symposium: Constraining Healthcare Costs]

By Katherine Baicker and Dana Goldman

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2011

In this paper, we explore the role patient incentives play in slowing healthcare spending growth. Evidence suggests that while patients do indeed respond to financial incentives, cost-sharing does not uniformly improve value; rather, cost-sharing provisi...

Competing for Endorsements

By Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

American Economic Review, June 1999

Endorsements are a simple language for communication between interest group leaders and group members. The members, who share policy concerns, may not perfectly understand where their interests lie on certain issues. If their leaders cannot fully explain ...