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Applied Economics Letters Volume 26, 2019 - Issue 15
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Can the affordable care act provisions explain the recent wave of acquisitions in the health insurance industry?

Haowen LuoDepartment of Accounting and Finance, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Zafar NazarovDepartment of Economics, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, USA
Pages 1234-1237 | Published online: 14 Nov 2018
 
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ABSTRACT

This research shows that the ACA health insurance exchanges have generated more merger activity in the health insurance market. The impact is robust to control for an extensive set of factors suggested by both neoclassical and behavioural frameworks. The economic impact of this ACA provision is substantial with 3.8 more months of unusually high merger activity or 52 more merger bids per year.

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