CRA assessed the market for inter-facility ambulance transport services on behalf of a plaintiff ambulance company that was unsuccessfully attempting to compete effectively against the incumbent monopolist ambulance company that was affiliated with the local hospital system. CRA analyses demonstrated that the market was appropriately limited to inter-facility ambulance transports and constrained geographically. CRA also explained the economic rationale for the hospital and incumbent ambulance company to attempt to prevent competitive expansion by plaintiff and calculated the damages associated with these anticompetitive actions. After surviving a motion to dismiss, the parties settled.
The impacts of same and opposite gender alumni speakers on interest in economics
For the journal Economics of Education Review, CRA’s Arpita Patnaik with her coauthors Gwyn Pauley, Joanna Venator and Matthew Wiswall have written the paper...