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Waiting Times for Hospital Admissions: the Impact of GP Fundholding

Croxson, Bronwyn; Propper, Carol; Shearer, Arran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Waiting times for hospital care are a significant issue in the UK National Health Service. The reforms of the health service in 1990 gave a subset of family doctors (GP fundholders) both the ability to choose the hospital where their patients were treated and the means to pay for some services....

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Waiting-time targets in healthcare markets: How long are we waiting?

Dixon, Huw David; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Waiting-time targets are frequently used by policy makers in the healthcare sector to monitor provider's performance. Such targets are based on the distribution of the patients on the list. We compare and link such distribution with the distribution of waiting time of the patients treated, as...

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Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit patients who choose between neighbouring hospitals (competitive...

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Institutions, Volatility and Investment

Besley, Timothy J.; Mueller, Hannes Felix - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Countries with strong executive constraints have lower growth volatility but similar average growth to those with weak … in inflows when strong executive constraints are adopted in terms of the reduction in the volatility in productivity …

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The Fundamental Surplus in Matching Models

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

To generate big responses of unemployment to productivity changes, researchers have reconfigured matching models in various ways: by elevating the utility of leisure, by making wages sticky, by assuming alternating-offer wage bargaining, by introducing costly acquisition of credit, or by...

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Carry Trades and Global Foreign Exchange Volatility

Menkhoff, Lukas; Sarno, Lucio; Schmeling, Maik; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We investigate the relation between global foreign exchange (FX) volatility risk and the cross-section of excess … FX volatility and thus deliver low returns in times of unexpected high volatility, when low interest rate currencies … provide a hedge by yielding positive returns. Our proxy for global FX volatility risk captures more than 90% of the cross …

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Leverage as a Predictor for Real Activity and Volatility

Kollmann, Robert; Zeugner, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

positively linked to the conditional volatility of future real activity and of equity returns. The joint information in sectoral …

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Natural resource wealth: the challenge of managing a windfall

van der Ploeg, Frederick; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

volatility of revenues, have failed to save a sufficiently high proportion of their resource revenues and failed to make high …

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Financial-Friction Macroeconomics with Highly Leveraged Financial Institutions

Luk, Sheung Kan; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper adds a highly-leveraged financial sector to the Ramsey model of economic growth and shows that this causes the economy to behave in a highly volatile manner: doing this strongly augments the macroeconomic effects of aggregate productivity shocks. Our model is built on the financial...

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Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

Comin, Diego; Loayza, Norman; Pasha, Farooq; Servén, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Business cycle fluctuations in developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (i) endogenous...

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