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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - 2014
framework. Patients differ in severity within a DRG. Providers are to some extent altruistic. For low altruism, a downward … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price … adjustment depends on relation between patients' severity and benefit. In a steady state, DRG prices are unlikely to give optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420751
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Gender Equality in Muslim-Majority Countries
Gouda, Moamen; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
Discrimination has been documented against women in Muslim-majority countries. Constitutions differ among Muslim-majority countries. By using women’s rights indicators and exploiting cross-country variation, we find that discrimination against women is more pronounced in countries where Islam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480466
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Beyond Non-Satiation: Needs and Requirements
Pettini, Anna - 2014
The hypothesis of non-satiation of rational choice theory is very seldom posed under scrutiny, maybe because it is taken as an anthropologic reality. Looking closer to that, we discover that it is taken for granted only in economic theory, and that it has become a reality as a result of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480814
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Economic Freedom and Religion: An Empirical Investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522517
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Economic Inequality and Covid-19 Death Rates in the First Wave, a Cross-Country Analysis
Davies, James B. - 2021
The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An older population, fewer hospital beds, lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582020
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The connexion between old and new approaches to financial satisfaction
van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261209
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Economic Inequality and COVID-19 Death Rates in the First Wave, a Cross-Country Analysis
Davies, James B. - 2021
The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An older population, fewer hospital beds, lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237221
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Urban Renewal after the Berlin Wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Maennig, Wolfgang; Richter, Felix J. - 2013
Urban renewal areas are popular but empirically understudied spatial planning instruments designed to prevent urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328835
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The Economics of Skyscrapers: A Synthesis
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Barr, Jason - 2020
vertical urban growth has gained pace over the course of the 20th century. Second, we lay out a simple theoretical model of … parameters that shape the urban height profile along with a summary of the related theoretical and empirical literature. Fourth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269497
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Open Economy Public Finance
Wildasin, David E. - 2021
Many important questions in the field of public finance can be viewed as problems involving public policies in open economies. This paper draws together, from that perspective, a wide range of topics in public economics, emphasizing the implications of resource mobility for our understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582016