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The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular, have been of prior concern to policy and to research. Using a rich panel data set this paper contributes to this literature by investigating factors determining the demand for...
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This paper analyses a recent proposal of the Australian Government to reform the existing Medicare system. It develops models of the physician’s behaviour and of a household’s demand for medical insurance under the proposed system, and then proceeds to characterise the equilibrium under the...
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One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries is the definition, by the third-party payer, of a set of preferred providers. The insured patients have different access rules to such providers when ill. The rules specify the...
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Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving...
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block funding for new entrants, or limit their access to refinance after a shock. This forces inefficient default and exit … lobby for weak enforcement, and retain control of collateral. We provide evidence that industry exit rates and profit …
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organizational change) and 'external' restructuring (the process by which less efficient establishments exit and more efficient …
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the defence in a dynamic setting with uncertainty. A firm entering a market also considers its ease of exit, foreseeing … that it may later wish to leave should market conditions deteriorate. By facilitating exit in times of financial distress …, the failing firm defence may encourage entry sufficiently that welfare is increased overall. This view of the defence has …
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We study how the labour market and industry uncertainty affect the investment decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In an uncertain business climate, MNEs must take account of the future in deciding where to locate a branch plant. When wages are endogenously determined, both the...
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that entry and exit rates are positively correlated across industries. Our objective is to investigate the effect of sunk … costs and, in particular, market size on entry and exit rates. We analyse a stochastic dynamic model of a monopolistically … show existence and uniqueness of a stationary equilibrium with simultaneous entry and exit: efficient firms survive while …
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within a region, explicitly taking into account exit, as well as entry, costs. Protecting workers by having strict lay … investigate how uncertainty affects the attractiveness of investment in a particular location. Just how much does the ease of exit … influence the entry decision? …
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