framework. Patients differ in severity within a DRG. Providers are to some extent altruistic. For low altruism, a downward … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price … adjustment depends on relation between patients’ severity and benefit. In a steady state, DRG prices are unlikely to give optimal …

This paper develops a simple time-series model of emigration and applies it to data for emigration from the UK between …

females in the UK have a higher probability to participate in the labour force than non-white females. Non-white females spend …

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the … has changed over the quarter century since 1978, using a newly constructed panel data set on donations to individual UK …

What demand-side and institutional factors raised the skilled wage premium over the 1980s in UK manufacturing? Using a …

for the UK and the US over various subperiods by means of smooth transition regressions.Results: There is often evidence … inflation targeting period in the UK is characterized by a concave rule supporting recession avoidance preferences, while the …

The changes in economic policy introduced in the UK after 1979 had a substantial impact on income distribution …

&D-intensive industries. The theoretical predictions are tested using UK data on the evolution of competition, concentration, innovation … legislation in the UK had no significant effect on the number of innovations commercialized in previously cartelized R …

The paper provides SVAR estimates for four open economies: the UK, Canada, Sweden and Denmark, making explicit a … another: monetary union appears easy to recommend for Sweden and Denmark, much less so for Canada and the UK. …