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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...

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Global Diseases, Global Patents and Differential Treatment in WTO Law

Sinha, Tapen; Condon, Bradly J - EconWPA - 2005

As of January 1, 2005, all developing country members of the WTO are required to implement the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We analyze the issue of access to patented medicine to treat global and neglected diseases in developing countries in the context of...

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...

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AIDS and income distribution in Africa. A micro-simulation study for Cˆote d’Ivoire

Grimm, Michael; Cogneau, Denis - EconWPA - 2004

We develop a demo-economic micro-simulation model able to simulate over a fifteen years period the impact of AIDS on … household and individual incomes. When focusing on the labor supply effects of over- mortality, the main effect of AIDS in Cˆote … conclusions do not seem to depend on the degree of heterogeneity and clustering of the HIV/AIDS-infections over the population. …

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Socio-economic status, sexual behavior, and differential AIDS mortality Evidence from Cˆote d’Ivoire

Grimm, Michael; Cogneau, Denis - EconWPA - 2004

Lack of knowledge about differential AIDS mortality seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in … educated people have a higher risk of dying of AIDS, because they are more likely to have several sexual partners. This effect … the socio-economic characteristics of low and high risk groups seems indispensable to set up adequate AIDS prevention and …

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Why Lying Pays: Truth Bias in the Communication with Conflicting Interests

Kawagoe, Toshiji; Takizawa, Hirokazu - EconWPA - 2005

We conduct experiments of a cheap-talk game with incomplete information in which one sender type has an incentive to misrepresent her type. Although that Sender type mostly lies in the experiments, the Receiver tends to believe the Sender's messages. This confirms ``truth bias'' reported in...

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Hide and Seek in Arizona

Rosenthal, Robert W.; Shachat, Jason; Walker, Mark - EconWPA - 2003

Laboratory subjects repeatedly played one of two variations of a simple two-person zero-sum game of ``hide and seek.'' Three puzzling departures from the prescriptions of equilibrium theory are found in the data: an asymmetry related to the player's role in the game; an asymmetry across the game...

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Simulating a Multiproduct Barter Exchange Economy

Levy, Daniel; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2005

We describe a multiproduct barter trading experiment in which students exchange real goods in an open market based on … their own personal preference. The experiment is designed for simulating a pure exchange market in order to demonstrate the …

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A Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

This paper aims to study, by means of a laboratory experiment and a simulation model, some of the mechanisms which …

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CONSUMER SEARCH: NOT ENOUGH OR TOO MUCH?

Zwick, Rami; Rapoport, Amnon; Lo, Alison King Chung; … - EconWPA - 2001

We study search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" environment in which consumers search sequentially for the best alternative from a known and finite set of multi-attribute alternatives. In contrast to most previous studies, we make no distributional assumptions about the quality of...

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