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Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Nuscheler, Robert (contributor) - 2005

We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...

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Optimal lockdown and social welfare

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2020

This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the … postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social …-maximal lockdown saving lives at the cost of reducing average utility at a given period, there exists always a stricter lockdown, which …

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Concerns for equity and the optimal co-payments for publicly provided health care

Hoel, Michael (contributor) - 2005

In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy decisions, it is often argued that an increase in co-payments is unacceptable as it will be particularly harmful to the less well-off in society. The present paper derives...

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Cigarette consumption in Spain : empirical evidence and implications for public health policy

Valdés, Benigno - In: Applied economics 25 (1993) 2, pp. 149-156

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Modelling bivariate count distributions with finite mixture models : application to health care demand of married couples

Zheng, Xiaoyong; Zimmer, David M. - In: Applied economics 43 (2011) 10/12, pp. 1477-1483

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A model to optimize investments in health technologies, quality of care and research

Gandjour, Afschin - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 19/21, pp. 2031-2039

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The demand for preventive medical care

Kenkel, Donald Scott - In: Applied economics 26 (1994) 4, pp. 313-325

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A comparison of unemployment, income and mortality interaction for five European countries

MacAvinchey, Ian D. - In: Applied economics 20 (1988) 4, pp. 453-471

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Securing victory or not? : surrendering optimal play when facing simple calculations – a natural experiment from the Swedish and US Jeopardy

Sjögren Lindquist, Gabriella; Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny - In: Applied economics 44 (2012) 4/6, pp. 777-783

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Why are firms that export cleaner? : international trade and CO2 emissions

Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen … - 2014 - This version: May 2014

This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...

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