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Legal Form, Growth and Exit of West German Firms - Empirical Results for Manufacturing, Construction, Trade and Service Industries

Harhoff, Dietmar; Stahl, Konrad; Woywode, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

approximately 11,000 West German firms from all major sectors of the German economy. We distinguish between voluntary liquidation … without losses to creditors, and bankruptcy as forced liquidation. We demonstrate that firms under limited liability are … of insolvencies is a non-monotonic function of firm size while the likelihood of voluntary liquidation decreases …

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The Economics of Bankruptcy and the Transition to a Market Economy

Abel, István; Gatsios, Konstantine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

liquidation and reorganization during economic transformation. The reforms of the financial system and other important factors in … economic transformation influence the impact of bankruptcy regulation in a way distorting it towards liquidation. …

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Public and Private Provision of Health Care

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries is the definition, by the third-party payer, of a set of preferred providers. The insured patients have different access rules to such providers when ill. The rules specify the...

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Extending Choice In English Health Care: The implications of the economic evidence

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Wilson, Deborah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving...

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...

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Provider competition and over-utilization in health care

Boone, Jan; Douven, Rudy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in each case. We argue that each of these can be optimal...

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Technological adoption in health care

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper addresses the impact of payment systems on the rate of technology adoption. We present a model where technological shift is driven by demand uncertainty, increased patients' benefit, financial variables, and the reimbursement system to providers. Two payment systems are studied: cost...

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Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

Acemoglu, Daron; Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Health expenditures as a share of GDP have more than tripled over the last half century. A common conjecture is that this is primarily a consequence of rising real per capita income, which more than doubled over the same period. We investigate this hypothesis empirically by instrumenting for...

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Health Care Quality and Economic Inequality

Jappelli, Tullio; Pistaferri, Luigi; Weber, Guglielmo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We argue that health care quality has an important impact on economic inequality and on saving behaviour. We exploit district-wide variability in health care quality provided by the Italian universal public health system to identify the effect of quality on income inequality, health inequality...

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Economic Incentives and Hospitalization in Germany

Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular … significant impact of social insurance on the demand for hospital trips, the empirical results presented here cast doubts on the …

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