The Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) recommends increasing screening for breast cancer through use of group education, one-on-one education, client reminders, reducing client out-of-pocket costs, and provider assessment and feedback; increasing screening for cervical cancer through use of one-on-one education, client reminders, and provider assessment and feedback; and incr...

In this paper we compare two mechanisms to regulate a monopoly: fixing a price for the good or service, or fixing the quantity to be produced. We consider an environment of asymmetric information in which the regulated firm has private information about the demand it faces or its costs. We completely characterize the optimal mechanism in both case and compare their performance. The problem is s...

The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the wages distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing profits, or raising prices. While there are hundreds of studies on the employment effect of the minimum wage, there is less than a handful studies on its profit eff...