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health care. The review considers several interlocking aspects of the current English choice policy: competition between …Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to …
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Provider competition is a currently popular healthcare reform model. A necessary condition for greater competition to …
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How many cartels are there? The answer is important in assessing the efficiency of competition policy. We present a … industry or not. Our model identifies key policy parameters from data generated under different competition policy regimes and …
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in yields following the OMT announcement, the high current degree of fragmentation poses difficult challenges for policy …-makers, since it leads to an unequal transmission of the ECB’s monetary policy to the various countries. …
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unemployed is particularly costly, this policy provides insurance equivalent to that provided by the current system. By reducing …
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This Paper provides a first applied game theory analysis of a technology-based climate protocol by assessing: (i) the self-enforcement (namely, the absence of incentives to free ride) of the coalition that would form when countries negotiate on climate-related technological cooperation; (ii) the...
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macroeconomic questions such as business cycles, growth, and policy. Particular attention is given to the ability of the model to …
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Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is, fiscal convergence (in the form of persistently similar ratios of government surplus/deficit to GDP)...
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Many international treaties come into force only after a minimum number of countries have signed and ratified the treaty. Why do countries agree to introduce a minimum participation constraint among the rules characterizing an international treaty? This question is particularly relevant in the...
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The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties has important implications for both the effectiveness and the efficiency of future climate policies. Among these implications, those related with technical change and...
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