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SUMMARY:Becker Brown Bag – Evaluating Medicaid Managed Care Plans Using Random Assignment
DESCRIPTION:BFI’s Becker Brown Bag Series invites prominent economists to present cutting-edge research and engage MBA\, undergraduate\, and other students studying economics in discussion. The talks highlight the practical use of economics for answering real-world questions pertinent to businesses and policy makers. \nAs of 2018\, more than 50 million Americans were enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans. These plans\, which are designed to reduce cost and improve health outcomes\, can vary greatly both in structure and in their potential outcomes. In this Becker Brown Bag lecture\, Prof. Matthew Notowidigdo shared research examining the effect of health care plan assignment on health care utilization\, spending and “effectiveness\,” offering pivotal clues for how to reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes. Notowidigdo and co-authors use the random assignment of more than 100\,000 households in South Carolina to different Medicaid managed care plans and find large differences in plan effects across many different health care categories\, including ER visits\, inpatient hospitalizations\, well-child doctor visits\, and cancer screenings. They find evidence of a large amount of selection bias and show that incorporating randomization can help improve the incentives for plans to increase quality and reduce costs\, as well as help households make more informed plan choices. \n 
URL:https://legacy.bfistage.com/event/becker-brown-bag-evaluating-medicaid-managed-care-plans-using-random-assignment/
LOCATION:Oriental Institute\, Breasted Hall\, 1155 E 58th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Capital Market Development: China and Asia Seminar Series – FinTech as a Financial Liberator
DESCRIPTION:An artificially low interest rate on household savings is a common form of financial repression in developing economies and typically benefits incumbent banks. Using proprietary data from a leading Chinese FinTech company\, the authors study the role of Fintech in ending the financial repression by introducing to households money market funds (MMFs) with deposit-like features. Cities and banks whose depositor base are more exposed to FinTech see greater deposit outflows. Importantly\, banks respond to FinTech competition by offering their own products with market interest rates. FinTech thus facilitates a bottom-up interest rate liberalization. \nAbout the Seminar Series\nFinancial market development goes hand-in-hand with economic growth. The development of China’s capital markets in terms of size\, regulations\, capability\, and efficiency has been impressive. China may now even lead globally in some dimensions\, notably e-payments systems. Yet\, China’s capital markets are still a work-in-progress facing both generic and unique challenges. Other Asian capital markets have even greater uneven development. Some in advanced Asian economies have acquired globally acclaimed reputation and capabilities while various regulatory and structural weaknesses dwarf others. Corporations and investors have been inclined to arbitrage cross-border regulatory and developmental gaps; so the very uneven status of capital markets across Asia is a policy issue for the governments in the entire region and perhaps globally. Analyzing the positive and negative lessons in the functioning of Asia’s capital markets\, and identifying reforms and applications of technology that could further improve Asian capital markets’ allocation efficiency\, financial inclusion\, and forewarning against reforms that might cause problems can benefit practitioners\, policymakers and researchers\, and can contribute significantly to overall prosperity. \nThe ABFER and the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute China (BFI-China)\, in collaboration with National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School\, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Department of Economics\, CUHK-Shenzhen and Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance (Tsinghua PBCSF)\, hope to provide a virtual network to benefit researchers\, policymakers\, and practitioners from Asia and beyond. \n\n\nAll times are listed in Central Standard Time. A unique Zoom webinar link will be sent to you two days before the event.  \n\nSession Format\nEach session lasts for an hour (30 minutes for the author\, 15 minutes for the discussion\, 15 minutes for participants’ Q&A).
URL:https://legacy.bfistage.com/event/capital-market-development-china-and-asia-seminar-series-fintech-as-a-financial-liberator/
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SUMMARY:China Biweekly Seminar on Public Economics — Customers and Retail Growth
DESCRIPTION:The Tsinghua University – University of Chicago Joint Research Center for Economics and Finance\, in collaboration with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics in China (BFI-China)\, the National Institute for Fiscal Studies (NIFS) and School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tsinghua University\, will host a virtual seminar series to inspire research and discussion on public policy issues relating to China. Focusing on a wide range of topics in public economics\, the seminar will be a premier forum for frontier economic research and dialogue on Chinese economic issues. \nJoin us for the next seminar featuring Liran Einav\, Professor of Economics at Stanford University. \n\nAll times listed below are Central Standard Time.
URL:https://legacy.bfistage.com/event/china-biweekly-seminar-on-public-economics-customers-and-retail-growth/
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