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Voorneveld, Mark - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

The Pareto dominance relation is shown to be the unique nontrivial partial order on the set of finite-dimensional real vectors satisfying a number of intuitive properties.

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Efficiency in the Treatment of Hip Fractures

Tambour, Magnus; Zethraeus, Niklas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1998

This study addresses the issue of efficiency in the treatment and rehabilitation of hip fracture patients in Sweden … after fracture. Each hip fracture treatment process is evaluated in terms of technical and allocative efficiency, using data … Stockholm area amount to about 40 million SEK assuming overall efficiency which represents about 11 percent of the total costs …

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Equity in Health Care Utilisation: Further Tests Based on Hurdle models and Swedish Micro Data

Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996

of departure from equity, as a result of supplier-induced demand. …

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Redistributive Effects of the Swedish Health Care Financing System

Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Sundberg, Gun - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996

The paper investigates the redistributive effects of the Swedish health care financing system in 1980 and 1990 for four different financial sources: County council taxes, payroll taxes, direct payments oand state grants. The redistributive effects are decomposed into vertical, horizontal and...

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Taxation, Inequality and the Allocation of Talent

Bergman, Malin - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2003

capital accumulation. In particular, while redistributive policy is likely to be successful both in terms of efficiency and … equity in low-tax societies, it may be highly detrimental in both respects if the rate of redistribution is already moderate …

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Taking Advice from Imperfectly Informed Lobbyists: When to Match Hawks with Hawks

Frisell, Lars - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

In this paper we study a sender-receiver game between an uninformed government and two informed lobbyists. There is a conflict of interest between government and lobbyists in the sense that the government's payoff is state-dependent while lobbyists prefer a certain policy irrespective of the...

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Commitee decisions: optimality and equilibrium

Laslier, Jean-François; Weibull, Jörgen - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2008

We consider a committee facing a binary decision under uncertainty. Each member holds some private information. Members may have different preferences and initial beliefs, but they all agree which decision should be taken in each of the two states of the world. We characterize the optimal...

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A computer model to analyse the cost-effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy - a revised version

Zethraeus, Niklas; Lindgren, Peter; Johnell, Olof; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

This report presents a computer model for evaluating the cost-effectiveness (CE) of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). The model is an extension of a previous model and includes also the risk of spine and wrist fracture. New Swedish data on risk of coronary heart disease and related mortality...

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Comparative Dynamics in Health Economics: Some Useful Results

Johansson, Per-Olov; Löfgren, Karl-Gustav - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1994

In analysis of atemporal models, comparative statics experiments are typically carried out, often employing envelope properties, such as Roy's identity, Hotelling's lemma and Shephard's lemma, in order to simplify the analysis. In analysis of dynamic models, such experiments are seldom...

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A reassessment of the cost-effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy in Sweden – results based on the Women’s Health Initiative randomised controlled trial

Zethraeus, Niklas; Borgström, Fredrik; Jönsson, Bengt; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2004

The cost-effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) based on a societal perspective is reassessed based on new medical evidence found in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). Within a model framework using an individual state transition model the cost-effectiveness of 50-60 year old...

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