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Paul J. Eliason

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Middle Name:J.
Last Name:Eliason
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Affiliation

(50%) David Eccles School of Business
University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah (United States)
http://www.business.utah.edu/
RePEc:edi:sobutus (more details at EDIRC)

(50%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.nber.org/
RePEc:edi:nberrus (more details at EDIRC)

Research output

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Working papers

  1. Renuka M. Diwan & Paul J. Eliason & Riley League & Jetson Leder-Luis & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2026. "Competition and Fraud in Health Care," NBER Working Papers 34802, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Luca Bertuzzi & Paul J. Eliason & Benjamin Heebsh & Riley J. League & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2023. "Gaming and Effort in Performance Pay," NBER Working Papers 31353, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Paul J. Eliason & Riley J. League & Jetson Leder-Luis & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2021. "Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud," NBER Working Papers 29491, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Paul J. Eliason & Paul L. E. Grieco & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2016. "Strategic Patient Discharge: The Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals," NBER Working Papers 22598, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Paul Eliason & Riley League & Jetson Leder-Luis & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2025. "Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health-Care Fraud," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 133(5), pages 1661-1702.
  2. Paul J Eliason & Benjamin Heebsh & Ryan C McDevitt & James W Roberts, 2020. "How Acquisitions Affect Firm Behavior and Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 135(1), pages 221-267.
  3. Eliason, Paul & Lutz, Byron, 2018. "Can fiscal rules constrain the size of government? An analysis of the “crown jewel” of tax and expenditure limitations," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 115-144.
  4. Paul J. Eliason & Paul L. E. Grieco & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2018. "Strategic Patient Discharge: The Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 108(11), pages 3232-3265, November.

Citations

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  1. Paul J. Eliason & Paul L. E. Grieco & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2018. "Strategic Patient Discharge: The Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 108(11), pages 3232-3265, November.

    Mentioned in:

    1. Sam Watson’s journal round-up for 12th November 2018
      by Sam Watson in The Academic Health Economists' Blog on 2018-11-12 15:46:49

Working papers

  1. Paul J. Eliason & Riley J. League & Jetson Leder-Luis & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2021. "Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud," NBER Working Papers 29491, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Shubhranshu Shekhar & Jetson Leder-Luis & Leman Akoglu, 2023. "Unsupervised Machine Learning for Explainable Health Care Fraud Detection," NBER Working Papers 30946, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. O'Malley, A. James & Bubolz, Thomas A. & Skinner, Jonathan S., 2023. "The diffusion of health care fraud: A bipartite network analysis," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 327(C).

  2. Paul J. Eliason & Paul L. E. Grieco & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2016. "Strategic Patient Discharge: The Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals," NBER Working Papers 22598, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Katalin Gaspar & Ramsis Croes & Misja Mikkers & Xander Koolman, 2024. "Length of hospital stays and financial incentives: evidence from Dutch rehabilitation centers," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 25(5), pages 731-741, July.
    2. Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein, 2017. "Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: What We Know and How We Know It," NBER Working Papers 24055, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Hackmann, Martin B. & Pohl, R. Vincent & Ziebarth, Nicolas R., 2023. "Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care," ZEW Discussion Papers 23-055, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    4. De Fraja, Gianni & Berta, Paolo & Verzillo, Stefano, 2018. "Optimal Healthcare Contracts: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Italy," CEPR Discussion Papers 13357, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    5. Atul Gupta & Sabrina T Howell & Constantine Yannelis & Abhinav Gupta, 2024. "Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 37(4), pages 1029-1077.
    6. Moura, Ana, 2021. "Essays in health economics," Other publications TiSEM c93abd22-fa4a-42a5-b172-d, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    7. Chan, Marc K. & Zeng, Guohua, 2018. "Unintended consequences of supply-side cost control? Evidence from China's new cooperative medical scheme," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 27-46.
    8. Maggie Shi, 2023. "Monitoring for Waste: Evidence from Medicare Audits," NBER Working Papers 31559, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    9. Clara Pott & Tom Stargardt & Udo Schneider & Simon Frey, 2021. "Do discontinuities in marginal reimbursement affect inpatient psychiatric care in Germany?," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 22(1), pages 101-114, February.
    10. Franziska Valder & Simon Reif & Harald Tauchmann, 2025. "Diagnosis Related Payment for Inpatient Mental Health Care: Hospital Selection and Effects on Length of Stay," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(3), pages 472-499, March.
    11. Mizuma, Kimiko & Amitani, Marie & Mizuma, Midori & Kawazu, Suguru & Sloan, Robert A. & Ibusuki, Rie & Takezaki, Toshiro & Owaki, Tetsuhiro, 2020. "Clarifying differences in viewpoints between multiple healthcare professionals during discharge planning assessments when discharging patients from a long-term care hospital to home," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    12. Moura, Ana, 2022. "Do subsidized nursing homes and home care teams reduce hospital bed-blocking? Evidence from Portugal," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).
    13. Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein & Yunan Ji & Neale Mahoney, 2020. "Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Payment Reform," NBER Working Papers 27223, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Katalin Gaspar & Xander Koolman, 2022. "Provider responses to discontinuous tariffs: evidence from Dutch rehabilitation care," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 333-354, September.
    15. Martin B. Hackmann & Juan S. Rojas & Nicolas R. Ziebarth, 2025. "Creative Financing and Public Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicaid and the Nursing Home Industry," NBER Working Papers 34118, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    16. Benjamin R. Handel & Kate Ho, 2021. "Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets," NBER Working Papers 29137, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    17. Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein & Yunan Ji & Neale Mahoney, 2020. "Randomized trial shows healthcare payment reform has equal-sized spillover effects on patients not targeted by reform," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117(32), pages 18939-18947, August.
    18. Coe, Norma B. & Rosenkranz, David A., 2025. "Provider payment incentives: Evidence from the U.S. hospice industry," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 248(C).
    19. Dillender, Marcus & Jinks, Lu & Lo Sasso, Anthony T., 2023. "When (and why) providers do not respond to changes in reimbursement rates," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 217(C).
    20. Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein & Neale Mahoney, 2018. "Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs: Evidence From Long‐Term Care Hospitals," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 86(6), pages 2161-2219, November.
    21. Yang, Ou & Chan, Marc K. & Cheng, Terence C. & Yong, Jongsay, 2020. "Cream skimming: Theory and evidence from hospital transfers and capacity utilization," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 173(C), pages 68-87.
    22. Manuel Adelino & Katharina Lewellen & W. Ben McCartney, 2022. "Hospital Financial Health and Clinical Choices: Evidence from the Financial Crisis," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(3), pages 2098-2119, March.

Articles

  1. Paul Eliason & Riley League & Jetson Leder-Luis & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2025. "Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health-Care Fraud," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 133(5), pages 1661-1702.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Paul J Eliason & Benjamin Heebsh & Ryan C McDevitt & James W Roberts, 2020. "How Acquisitions Affect Firm Behavior and Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 135(1), pages 221-267.

    Cited by:

    1. Cefis, Elena & Coad, Alex & Lucini-Paioni, Alessandro, 2023. "Landmarks as lighthouses: firms' innovation and modes of exit during the business cycle," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(8).
    2. Andy Ye Yuan & Bernard Black & Timea Viragh & David J. Magid & Qian Luo & Ali Moghtaderi, 2023. "Effect of financial incentives on hospital‐cardiologist integration and cardiac test location," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 20(3), pages 570-608, September.
    3. Joaquín Matías Liwski, 2023. "Should I stay or should I go? Effects of being acquired on employee outcomes: evidence from Brazil," Young Researchers Working Papers 13, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia, revised Feb 2023.
    4. Hellbom Almström, Axel & Ellegård, Lina Maria & Enache, Andreea & Strömberg, Klara, 2025. "Mixed payment and mixed objectives: Insights from the ownership structure in Swedish primary care," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 237(C).
    5. Atul Gupta & Sabrina T Howell & Constantine Yannelis & Abhinav Gupta, 2024. "Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes," The Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 37(4), pages 1029-1077.
    6. Robert Clark & Mario Samano, 2022. "Incentivized Mergers and Cost Efficiency: Evidence from the Electricity Distribution Industry," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 70(4), pages 791-837, December.
    7. Nikhil Agarwal & Paulo J. Somaini, 2022. "Demand Analysis under Latent Choice Constraints," NBER Working Papers 29993, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. Alice Bonaimé & Ye (Emma) Wang, 2024. "Mergers, Product Prices, and Innovation: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 79(3), pages 2195-2236, June.
    9. Ambar La Forgia, 2023. "The Impact of Management on Clinical Performance: Evidence from Physician Practice Management Companies," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 69(8), pages 4646-4667, August.
    10. Ivan Badinski & Amy Finkelstein & Matthew Gentzkow & Peter Hull, 2023. "Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians," NBER Working Papers 31749, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    11. Brendon McConnell, 2023. "What's Logs Got to do With it: On the Perils of log Dependent Variables and Difference-in-Differences," Papers 2308.00167, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2023.
    12. Fumagalli, Chiara & Motta, Massimo & Tarantino, Emanuele, 2022. "Shelving or developing? Optimal policy for mergers with potential competitors," CEPR Discussion Papers 15113, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    13. Kyle Wilson, 2025. "Local Competition, Multimarket Contact, and Product Quality: Evidence From Internet Service Provision," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 66(4), pages 439-467, April.
    14. Chiara Fumagalli & Massimo Motta & Emanuele Tarantino, 2022. "Shelving or developing? The acquisition of potential competitors under financial constraints," Working Papers 680, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
    15. Aaron Barkley, 2023. "The Human Cost of Collusion: Health Effects of a Mexican Insulin Cartel," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 21(5), pages 1865-1904.
    16. Haucap, Justus & Stiebale, Joel, 2023. "Non-price effects of mergers and acquisitions," DICE Discussion Papers 402, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
    17. Tarantino, Emanuele & Pavanini, Nicola & Mayordomo, Sergio, 2020. "The Impact of Alternative Forms of Bank Consolidation on Credit Supply and Financial Stability," CEPR Discussion Papers 15069, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    18. Benjamin R. Handel & Kate Ho, 2021. "Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets," NBER Working Papers 29137, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    19. Petek, Nathan, 2022. "The marginal benefit of hospitals: Evidence from the effect of entry and exit on utilization and mortality rates," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    20. Atul Gupta & Sabrina T Howell & Constantine Yannelis & Abhinav Gupta, 2021. "Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes," Working Papers 2021-20, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.
    21. Horn, Danea, 2025. "The incentive to treat: Physician agency and the expansion of the 340B drug pricing program," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    22. Julia González & Jorge Lemus & Guillermo Marshall, 2024. "Mergers and organizational disruption: Evidence from the US airline industry," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(1), pages 111-130, January.
    23. Russ Kashian & Nicholas Lovett & Yuhan Xue, 2020. "Has the affordable care act affected health care efficiency?," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 58(2), pages 193-233, December.

  3. Eliason, Paul & Lutz, Byron, 2018. "Can fiscal rules constrain the size of government? An analysis of the “crown jewel” of tax and expenditure limitations," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 115-144.

    Cited by:

    1. Johannes Blum & Klaus Gründler & Raphael de Britto Schiller & Niklas Potrafke, 2019. "Die Schuldenbremse in der Diskussion – Teilnehmer des Ökonomenpanels mehrheitlich für Beibehaltung," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 72(22), pages 27-33, November.
    2. Niklas Potrafke & Kaspar Wüthrich, 2020. "Green Governments," CESifo Working Paper Series 8726, CESifo.
    3. Qi, Yu & Yu, Jinliang & Yang, Shubo & Xie, Xiaoyi, 2022. "Local government consumption and firm performance: Evidence from the "TPCs" in China," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    4. Luigi Marattin & Tommaso Nannicini & Francesco Porcelli, 2022. "Revenue vs expenditure based fiscal consolidation: the pass-through from federal cuts to local taxes," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 29(4), pages 834-872, August.
    5. Clemens Fuest & Klaus Gründler & Niklas Potrafke & Marcel Fratzscher & Alexander Kriwoluzky & Claus Michelsen & Michael Hüther & Peter Bofinger & Lars P. Feld & Wolf Heinrich Reuter, 2019. "Schuldenbremse — Investitionshemmnis oder Vorbild für Europa? [Debt Brake — Investment Barrier or Role Model for Europe?]," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 99(5), pages 307-329, May.
    6. Jackson Mejia & Brian C. Albrecht, 2022. "On price stability with a job guarantee," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 40(4), pages 568-584, October.
    7. Zhentao Shi & Jin Xi & Haitian Xie, 2025. "A Synthetic Business Cycle Approach to Counterfactual Analysis with Nonstationary Macroeconomic Data," Papers 2505.22388, arXiv.org.
    8. Asatryan, Zareh & Castellón, César & Stratmann, Thomas, 2018. "Balanced budget rules and fiscal outcomes: Evidence from historical constitutions," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 167(C), pages 105-119.
    9. David R. Agrawal & James M. Poterba & Owen M. Zidar, 2024. "Policy Responses to Tax Competition: An Introduction," NBER Working Papers 32090, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. Thomas Brändle & Marc Elsener, 2024. "Do fiscal rules matter? A survey of recent evidence," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Springer;Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, vol. 160(1), pages 1-38, December.
    11. Bram Gootjes & Jakob Haan & Richard Jong-A-Pin, 2021. "Do fiscal rules constrain political budget cycles?," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 188(1), pages 1-30, July.
    12. Alpino, Matteo & Asatryan, Zareh & Blesse, Sebastian & Wehrhöfer, Nils, 2020. "Austerity and distributional policy," ZEW Discussion Papers 20-028, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    13. Rahul Pathak, 2023. "Do Subnational Fiscal Rules Reduce Public Investment? The Case of Fiscal Responsibility Laws in India," Public Finance Review, , vol. 51(3), pages 315-338, May.
    14. Mei, Yingdan & Gao, Li & Zhang, Wendong & Yang, Feng-An, 2021. "Do homeowners benefit when coal-fired power plants switch to natural gas? Evidence from Beijing, China," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    15. Maximilian Langer & Joshua Hassib & Lars P. Feld & Daniel Nientiedt, 2025. "Evaluating the Effects of the German Debt Brake: A Synthetic Control Approach," CESifo Working Paper Series 11933, CESifo.
    16. Díaz-Roldán Carmen & Filho Fernando Ferrari & da Silva Bichara Julimar, 2021. "Fiscal Rules in Economic Crisis: The Trade-off Between Consolidation and Recovery, from a European Perspective," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 15(1), pages 199-216, January.
    17. Niklas Potrafke & Luisa Dörr & Klaus Gründler & Tuuli Tähtinen & Luisa Dörr, 2025. "Female Leaders and the Representation of Women in Government," CESifo Working Paper Series 11851, CESifo.
    18. Absher, Samuel & Grier, Kevin & Grier, Robin, 2020. "The economic consequences of durable left-populist regimes in Latin America," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 787-817.
    19. López-Herrera, Carmen & Cordero, José M. & Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco & Polo, Cristina, 2023. "Fiscal rules and their influence on public sector efficiency," MPRA Paper 119018, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  4. Paul J. Eliason & Paul L. E. Grieco & Ryan C. McDevitt & James W. Roberts, 2018. "Strategic Patient Discharge: The Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 108(11), pages 3232-3265, November.
    See citations under working paper version above.

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  1. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (2) 2021-12-20 2023-07-24
  2. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (2) 2021-12-20 2026-02-23
  3. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2026-02-23
  4. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (1) 2026-02-23
  5. NEP-SOG: Sociology of Economics (1) 2016-09-18

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