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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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Individual Investments in Education and Health : Policy Responses and Interactions
Carbone, Jared C. - 2016
Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that determines an individual's demand for knowledge and...
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Regional Health Care Decentralization in Unitary States : Equal Spending, Equal Satisfaction?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2016
Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...
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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2018
Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer - such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism to...
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Political Agency and Public Health Care : Evidence from India
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
A growing literature studies the effect of enhancing the agency relationship between political incumbents and constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically...
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Advertising Competition in the Free-to-Air TV Broadcasting Industry
Ivaldi, Marc - 2017
This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955187
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Competition in the International Niobium Market : An Econometric Study
Silveira, Jailison W. - 2017
Niobium is a highly strategic mineral, in which Brazil holds almost all of the world's reserves followed by Canada. Niobium has an important role in steel alloys for the aerospace industry and future potential for the industry's superconductors. The present paper investigates the prevailing...
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Salience, Competition, and Decoy Goods
Herweg, Fabian - 2016
competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of 'dirty' goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
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Short-Term Price Effects of a Carbon Tax and Implications for Sectors Competitiveness in Small Open Economies
Gonne, Nicolas - 2021
Asymmetric climate policies are expected to distort the level-playing field regarding international trade, singularly to the detriment of small open economies. The paper develops a flexible method that provides essential input regarding the design of offsetting measures. It builds on...
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