Healthcare.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Healthcare Program, which is directed by Jonathan Gruber of MIT, met in Cambridge on February 28, 2014. Part of the meeting was held jointly with the NBER's Insurance Working Group, and papers marked with a (*) were presented to the joint session. These papers were discussed:

* Jill Horwitz, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Daniel Polsky, University of Pennsylvania, "Challenges to Regulatory Decentralization: Lessons from State Health Technology Regulation" (NBER Working Paper No. 19801)

* Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER, and Joshua Gottlieb, University of British Columbia, "Bargaining in the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare's Influence on Private Payment Systems" (NBER Working Paper No. 19503)

* (*) Marika Cabral, University of Texas, Austin and NBER, and Neale Mahoney, University of Chicago and NBER, "Externalities and Taxation...