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Growth in the “New Economy”: U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...

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Communications Policy, Media Development, and Convergence

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

In the deliberations of scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers, television has exceptional power and influence. Yet the historical record shows that television has not changed the economics of attention for large populations in the course of their daily lives. By the mid- 1920s, print...

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Investigating the distribution of the value of travel time savings

Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2004

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Investigating the distribution of the value of travel time savings

Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2004

The distribution of the value of travel time savings (VTTS) is investigated employing various nonparametric techniques …

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Private hospitals in Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

Amongst other things, this report: . provides a statistical overview of the structure of the industry and the activities of the 500 acute care, psychiatric and day hospitals that operate within it; . looks at some indicators of the industry’s financial performance, efficiency and quality of...

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Managed competition in health care

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

In December 2002, the Commission released the proceedings of its August 2002 workshop on Managed Competition. The workshop was organised to provide an opportunity for a more detailed discussion by a group of leading health policy analysts of the proposal by Dr Richard Scotton of a ‘managed...

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Health policy roundtable

EconWPA; Productivity Commission Melbourne Institute of …; … - 2002

Proceedings of a conference organised by the Productivity Commission and the Melbourne Institute of Economic and Social Research held on 7-8 March 2002 to explore key policy issues facing Australia's health sector. The Roundtable drew together thirty leading practitioners and analysts on health...

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Book Review --Working with Private Sector Providers for Better Health Care: An Introductory Guide

Kumar, Deepak - EconWPA - 2005

Working with Private Sector Provider for Better Healthcare: An Introductory Guide aims to provide the most critical … approach to develop strategies for working with Private Sector Participation (PSPs) for better healthcare. This Guide focuses … users, supplying them with healthcare services or products. The guide focuses the facts that PSPs behavior is influenced by …

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"Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets"

Gaynor, Martin; Haas-Wilson, Deborah - EconWPA - 1998

The health care industry is being transformed. Large firms are merging and acquiring other firms. Alliances and contractual relations between players in this market are shifting rapidly. Within the next few years, many markets are predicted to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust...

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