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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 specifically on those PSPs who operate on a for-profit...

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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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Stochastic Dominance Efficiency Tests under Diversification

Kuosmanen, Timo - EconWPA - 2001

This paper focuses on Stochastic Dominance (SD) efficiency in a finite empirical panel data. We analytically characterize the sets of unsorted time series that dominate a given evaluated distribution by the First, Second, and Third order SD. Using these insights, we develop simple Linear...

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Agricultural Applications of Value-at-Risk Analysis: A Perspective

Manfredo, Mark R.; Leuthold, Raymond M. - EconWPA - 1998

Value-at-Risk (VaR) determines the probability of a portfolio of assets losing a certain amount in a given time period … due to adverse market conditions with a particular level of confidence. Value-at-Risk has received considerable attention … from financial economists and financial practitioners for its use in risk reporting, in particular the risks of derivatives …

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The 1998 Third Annual Survey of Risk Management Practices of Unit Trusts in Singapore

LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004

transformation of the fund management industry in Singapore and focus on the improvement of its risk management practices. This … quality of both the survey responses and of the reported risk management practices has improved in the past three years. The …, investment styles and various kinds of risk exposures. Regrettably, still two thirds of the unit trusts do not provide any risk …

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Extreme Moves in Foreign Exchange Rates and Risk Limit Setting

Dacorogna, Michel; Blum, Peter - EconWPA - 2003

Foreign exchange rates can be subject to considerable daily fluctuations (up to 5 percent within one day). This can, in certain cases, cause serious losses on open overnight positions. Given a maximum tolerable loss for a company, limits have to be set on open overnight positions in foreign...

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APPLICATION OF GARCH MODELS IN FORECASTING THE VOLATILITY OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

Guida, Tony; Matringe, Olivier - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the forecasting performance of GARCH’s models used with agricultural commodities data. We compare different possible sources of forecasting improvement, using various statistical distributions and models. We have chosen to confine our analysis on four indices which are the...

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