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Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
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The forecast plays an important role in the planning, the decision-making and control in any domain of activity … (univariate models), that use only the information of its past values to forecast the future, can often predict future with more … accuracy than causal or multivariate models. In this paper, we model and forecast the offensive effectiveness of the soccer …
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estimated time-varying bias can be used to improve the SPF and Green Book inflation forecast performance by at least 13.4%. This … distinguishes between systematic and non-systematic forecast errors. The findings indicate highly persistent systematic mistakes … paper also documents evidence that the real interest rate plays a crucial role in explaining the level of bias that leads to …
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This study aimed to clarify the value of the bias beta stocks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and make … corrections to the bias value using Scholes and Williams, Dimson, and Fowler and Rorke. Results of this study indicate that the … stock beta is the value of bias, besides the results normality test also confirmed that the distribution of stock returns of …
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market for experts. The information the expert reveals decreases as his bias moves toward stronger preference for the status …, revealing the intensity of the expert's bias doesn't always improve the information he reveals in equilibrium. The presence of a …
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for the bias in OLS estimation of a general ARX(p) model. …
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Non-response bias refers to the mistake one expects to make in estimating a population characteristic based on a sample … misdirected policy action. Therefore, considerable attention has been given to the problem of non-response bias, both at the …
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This paper extends the notion of the rational agent in economics by acknowledging the role of the unconscious in the agent's decision-making process. It argues that the unconscious can be modelled by a rational agent with his own objective function and set of information. The combination of both...
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The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
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An economic model is introduced to discuss the impacts of rural migration on skills in source and destination localities and regions. Two versions of the model are used without and with risks. In this context, the model considers that rural migration is determined by the demand for education and...
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