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SCREENING FOR CANCER AND MARKET STRUCTURE:A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS FOR MAMMOGRAM AND PAP-SMEAR UTILIZATION IN THE U.S.

Yasar, Yavuz - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between health care market structure and utilization of preventive care …. We have yet to provide a clear answer to the question of how market structure affects the utilization of preventive care … utilization of mammogram and Pap-smear tests. In addition, an unusual data source, insurance claims data, rather than surveys or …

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A cross sectional analysis of ship maintenance expenses

Bitros, Georgios; Kavussanos, Manolis - EconWPA - 2005

. As expected from theory, the empirical results show that maintenance expenditure is positively related to utilization … result is that the elasticities of maintenance expenses with respect to utilization, age, and size at least in 1999 were …

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Determinants of Expenditure in Automobile Maintenance: Some Evidence from Greece

Bitros, George C. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper derives a model of maintenance expenditures from an analytical framework in which maintenance, utilization …’s age, salvage value and intensity of utilization, and c) Italian cars are most demanding in maintenance outlays, followed …

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Operating policies in a model with terminal scrapping

Bitros, George C.; Flytzanis, Elias - EconWPA - 2004

We draw on three strands of literature dealing with utilization, maintenance, and scrapping in order to analyze the … intensity of its utilization and maintenance; second, by ex-panding on the range of explainable operating policies to allow for …

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Utilization and Maintenance in a Model with Terminal Scrapping

Bitros, George; Flytzanis, Elias - EconWPA - 2004

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The Economic Incentives for Sharing Security Information

Gal-Or, Esther; Ghose, Anindya - EconWPA - 2005

Given that Information Technology (IT) security has emerged as an important issue in the last few years, the subject of security information sharing among firms, as a tool to minimize security breaches, has gained the interest of practitioners and academics. To promote the disclosure and sharing...

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"Optimum Population -- A New Look: A Hamiltonian Approach Towards A Dynamic Analysis"

Bokhari, Farasat; McCarthy, George W. - EconWPA - 1996

The current optimum population models found in economic literature define static optimum population used in forming policy i.e. at a given instant what should be the optimum number of people in a (closed) economy. We believe that although this definition is useful, it is very limiting as far as...

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Cost savings of unit-based pricing of household waste: The case of the Netherlands

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - EconWPA - 2004

Using a panel data set for Dutch municipalities we estimate effects for weight-based, bag-based, frequency-based and volume-based pricing of household waste collection. Unit-based pricing shows to be effective in reducing solid and compostable and increasing recyclable waste. Pricing has no...

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Strategic Trade Policy, Spillovers, and the Uncertain Mode of

Zigic, Kresimir - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper we discuss the incentives of a welfare maximizing government to implement strategic trade policy when there is, on the one hand, uncertainty about the relevant market information (like the type of competition, demand function, cost function, etc.), but, on the other hand, the...

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Banks' equity stakes in borrowing firms: A corporate finance approach

Vauhkonen, Jukka - EconWPA - 2004

In most countries, banks’ equity holdings in firms that borrow from then are rather small. In light of the theoretical literature, this is somewhat surprising. For example, according to agency cost models, allowing banks to hold equity would seem to alleviate firms’ asset substitution moral...

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