4 papers
Raising Rivals' Costs on Hybrid Platforms: The Complementarity of Fees and Self-Preferencing
Maysam Rabbani, Ram Sewak Dubey
Hybrid platforms disadvantage third-party sellers through the platform fee and self-preferencing, and regulators have worried that constraining either instrument may intensify the…
Price Cap vs. Per-Unit Subsidies: Selection, Pricing, and Cross Subsidization
Ram Sewak Dubey, Maysam Rabbani, Rodrigo Pinto
We evaluate subsidy mechanisms in the FCC's Rural Health Care program using administrative data covering the full population of participants. The original price-cap mechanism remov…
Falling Birthrate and Rising C-section: Post-Pandemic Evidence from New York
Maysam Rabbani, Zahra Akbari
The literature documents the effects of the pandemic on birthrate, birthweight, and pregnancy complications. This study contributes to this growing body of research by examining mu…
Birthweight Declined During the Pandemic and It Is Falling Further Post-pandemic
Maysam Rabbani, Elijah Gervais
Recent literature reports mixed evidence on whether birthweight has decreased during the pandemic. In this paper, we use New York's hospital inpatient discharge data and contribute…