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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void
Herkenhoff, Philipp - 2020
international outsourcing and most strongly so for sourcing from low-regulation countries. Motivated by these findings, we introduce …
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The Quantification of Structural Reforms : Extending the Framework to Emerging Market Economies
Égert, Balázs - 2018
. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - CESifo - 2014
This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …
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Hospital Competition and Quality with Regulated Prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2009
costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …
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Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2007
This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …
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Fractional Integration and Cointegration in US Financial Time Series Data
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011
This paper examines several US monthly financial time series data using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The univariate analysis based on fractional integration aims to determine whether the series are I(1) (in which case markets might be efficient) or alternatively I(d) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126003
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Using Real-Time Data to Test for Political Budget Cycles
Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2012
We use real‐time annual data on the fiscal balance, government current spending, current revenues and net capital outlays as published at a half yearly frequency in the OECD Economic Outlook for 25 OECD countries. For each fiscal year t we have a number of forecasts, a first release, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100272
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Long Memory in German Energy Price Indices
Barros, Carlos Pestana - 2012
This study examines the long-memory properties of German energy price indices (specifically, import and export prices, as well as producer and consumer prices) for hard coal, lignite, mineral oil and natural gas adopting a fractional integration modelling framework. The analysis is undertaken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100504
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Long Memory and Fractional Integration in High Frequency Data on the US Dollar/British Pound Spot Exchange Rate
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
This paper analyses the long-memory properties of a high-frequency financial time series dataset. It focuses on temporal aggregation and other features of the data, and how they might affect the degree of dependence of the series. Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082343
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Multi-Factor Gegenbauer Processes and European Inflation Rates
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
In this paper we specify a multi-factor long-memory process that enables us to estimate the fractional differencing parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest...
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