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Managed Care and the Adoption of Hospital Technology: The Case of Cardiac Catheterization

Bokhari, Farasat A.S. - EconWPA - 2001

The diffusion of health care technology is influenced by both the total market share of managed care organizations as well as the level of competition among them. This paper differentiates between HMO penetration and competition and examines their relationship to the adoption of cardiac...

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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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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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Optimal Audit Policy and Heterogenous Agents

Ratto, Marisa; Vergé, Thibaud - EconWPA - 2003

to behave dishonestly. The audit policy should therefore be different for different categories of agents. This paper … focuses on the optimal audit policy when there are two categories of agents and shows that the auditor adopts different … policies depending on its budget. When resources are quite limited, the auditor sets identical audit probabilities for both …

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The Effect of an Additional Alternative on Measured Risk Preferences in a Field Experiment

Engle-Warnick, Jim; Escobal, Javier; Laszlo, Sonia - EconWPA - 2005

We experimentally test for the effect of an additional alternative on the measured risk preferences of farmers in rural Peru. In our experiment, subjects revealed their risk preferences with a series of choices between two gambles. We added a third gamble, which was always dominated by one of...

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The Weakest Link - A Field Experiment in Rational Decision Making

Haan, Marco; Los, Bart; Riyanto, Yohanes; Geest, Martin van - EconWPA - 2002

We analyze the BBC TV game show "The Weakest Link", using data from 77 episodes, covering 13,380 questions. We focus on the banking decision, where a contestant chooses to secure an amount of money for the eventual winner, or to risk it on a general knowledge question. In the latter case, should...

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Your Morals Are Your Moods

Kirchsteiger, Georg; Rigotti, Luca; Rustichini, Aldo - EconWPA - 2001

We test the effect of players' moods on their behavior in a gift-exchange game. In the first stage of the game, player 1 chooses a transfer to player 2. In the second stage, player 2 chooses an effort level. Higher effort is more costly for player 2, but it increases player 1's payoff. We say...

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Does It Pay To Pray? Evaluating the Economic Return to Religious Ritual

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Sosis, Richard H. - EconWPA - 2003

Time-consuming and costly religious rituals pose a puzzle for economists committed to rational choice theories of human behavior. We propose that religious rituals promote in-group trust and cooperation that help to overcome collective-action problems. We test this hypothesis on communal...

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Cooperation and the In-Group-Out-Group Bias: A Field Test on Israeli Kibbutz Members and City Residents

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Sosis, Richard H. - EconWPA - 2003

The in-group-out-group bias is among the most well documented and widely observed phenomenon in the social sciences. Despite its role in hiring decisions and job discrimination, negotiations, and conflict and competition between groups, economists have heretofore ignored the in- group-out-group...

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Strengths of the Weakest-Link

Février, Philippe; ) Laurent Linnemer - EconWPA - 2002

The "Weakest Link" is a game show full of paradox. To increase the probability of winning, contestants should eliminate the strongest players. Yet, if it is anticipated that the best player is to be eliminated, participants do not answer questions correctly and nothing is gained. We solve a game...

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