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In brief... Bargain hunters: calculating the benefits of consumer search

To what extent can shoppers convert the time they spend looking for particular products into monetary savings? The authors use electronic tags to study the behaviour of 12,000 consumers in a large supermarket in Northern...Read more...

Fabio Pinna and Stephan Seiler

9 June 2016

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Wikipedia: the value of open content production

Without the ‘spillover effects’ of open content production, the growth in Wikipedia editing activity between 2002 and 2010 would have been halved. That is the central finding of research by Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Se...Read more...

Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler

3 October 2014

CEP discussion paper
Consumer search: evidence from path-tracking data

We estimate the effect of consumer search on the price of the purchased product in a physical store environment. We implement the analysis using a unique data set obtained from radio frequency identification tags, which ...Read more...

Fabio Pinna and Stephan Seiler

8 September 2014

CEP discussion paper
Quantifying spillovers in open source content production: evidence from Wikipedia

Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current...Read more...

Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler

9 June 2014

CentrePiece article
Free to choose? The impact of healthcare reform

Has the introduction of greater choice and competition in healthcare in England led to improved outcomes for patients? The authors assess changes in the quality of care that hospitals provided for cardiac surgery patient...Read more...

Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler

27 June 2013

CEP discussion paper
Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service

The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluat...Read more...

Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler

3 December 2012

CEP discussion paper
The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

We analyze the causal impact of competition on managerial quality (and hospital performance). To address the endogeneity of market structure we analyze the English public hospital sector where entry and exit are controll...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen

Revised October 2011

CentrePiece article
Management practices in the NHS

CEP researchers have conducted a unique survey of clinicians and hospital managers to explore how well NHS hospitals are managed...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen

February 2010