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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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In Defense of Lawyers. Moral Hazard as an Aid to Cooperation

Wärneryd, Karl - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996

This paper studies strategic delegation in two-player contests for an indivisible prize (as in, e.g. litigation) where one party's probability of winning is determined by the relative investments of both. Even though neither player stands to gain anything from the possibility of one player...

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The First-Best Sharing Rule in the Continuous-Time Principal-Agent Model with Exponential Utility

Müller, Holger M. - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1996

The continuous-time principal-agent model with exponential utility developed by Holmström and Milgrom (1987) and generalized by Schättler and Sung (1993, 1996) and Sung (1995) admits a simple closed-form solution: The second-best sharing rule is linear in output. Unfortunately, the first-best...

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(M)oral Hazard?

Grönqvist, Erik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

Would you go to the dentist more often if it were free? Observational data is here used to analyze the impact of full-coverage insurance on dental care utilization using different identification strategies. The challenge of assessing the bite of moral hazard without an experimental study design...

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Financial Innovation, Market Participation and Asset Prices

Calvet, Laurent; Gonzalez-Eiras, Martin; Sodini, Paolo - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001

This paper proposes that the introduction of non-redundant assets can endogenously modify trader participation in financial markets, which can lead to a lower market premium and a higher interest rate. We demonstrate this mechanism in a tractable exchange economy with endogenous participation....

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Aggregate Savings When Individual Income Varies

Floden, Martin - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2005

This paper examines aggregate savings in a general equilibrium model where infinitely lived households face volatile (and possibly uncertain) income paths, hold a risk-free asset, and face a liquidity constraint. I first show that the equilibrium capital stock in an economy without uncertainty,...

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Network Externality and Convention

Wärneryd, Karl - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1997

This is a dictionary entry forthcoming in Peter Newman, ed. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, London: Macmillan, 1998.

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Group Selection: The quest for social preferences

Salomonsson, Marcus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2009

This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities.

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Costs and quality of life associated with osteoporosis related fractures - Results from a Swedish survey

Zethraeus, Niklas; Borgström, Fredrik; Johnell, Olof; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

There are few studies investigating the consequences of osteoporotic (low bone density) fractures in terms of costs and health outcomes. The purpose of this Swedish pilot study is to assess the costs and quality of life related to fractures of the hip, spine, wrist and shoulder and further to...

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Costs and Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis. A Cross-Sectional Observational Study in the UK

Kobelt, Gisela; Lindgren, Peter; Parkin, David; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

Abstract: We performed a cross-sectional, "bottom-up" observational study of resource consumption and quality of life of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the United Kingdom. Three centers participated in the study. Patients received a questionnaire either by mail or during a clinic...

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