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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - CESifo - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
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Supplementary Private Health Insurance in Selected Countries: Lessons for EU Governments?
Gechert, Sebastian - CESifo - 2009
A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...
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Universal Coverage on a Budget: Impacts on Health Care Utilization and Out-Of-Pocket Expenditures in Thailand
Limwattananon, Supon; Neelsen, Sven; O'Donnell, Owen; … - CESifo - 2013
We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending below 4% of GDP. Identification is through comparison...
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Demand Patterns for Treatment Insurance in Norway
Aarbu, Karl Ove - CESifo - 2010
In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care market. These health care services are obtained normally...
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High-Frequency Analysis of Foreign Exchange Interventions: What do we learn?
Menkhoff, Lukas - CESifo - 2008
The high-frequency analysis of foreign exchange dynamics is helpful in order to better identify the impact of central bank interventions. Evidence robustly shows that interventions do indeed move the exchange rate level in the desired direction. Interventions increase volatility in the short run...
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The Offshore Renminbi Exchange Rate: Microstructure and Links to the Onshore Market
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Rime, Dagfinn - CESifo - 2014
The offshore renminbi (CNH) exchange rate is the exchange rate of the Chinese currency transacted outside China. We study the CNH exchange rate dynamics and its links with onshore exchange rates. Using a specialized microstructure dataset, we find that CNH is significantly affected by its order...
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'Globesity'? The Effects of Globalization on Obesity and Caloric Intake
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - CESifo - 2014
This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … social globalization, and specifically the effects of changes in information flows and social proximity. A one standard …
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Financial Integration, Globalization, and Real Activity
Nicolò, Gianni De; Juvenal, Luciana - CESifo - 2012
distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: (a) financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; (c) both advances in financial integration and globalization are … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries’ growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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Portability of Social Benefits and International Trade in Services: Some Reflections
Valdés-Prieto, Salvador - CESifo - 2013
In this fascinating new field, this paper offers some reflections on portability of social benefits, and tries to identify promising research topics. These reflections are organized in three sections. The first analyzes the channels that underpin the positive value of portability of social...
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International Portability of Health-Cost Cover: Mobility, Insurance, and Redistribution
Werding, Martin; McLennan, Stuart - CESifo - 2012
. Illustrative simulations show that this approach may be operative under real-world conditions. …
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