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Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider : a measurement error approach
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507834
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Does inequality matter for the consumption-wealth channel? : empirical evidence
Arrondel, Luc; Lamarche, Pierre; Savignac, Frédérique - 2017
This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household surveys. This heterogeneity is driven by differences in both wealth composition and wealth levels. We find a decreasing marginal propensity to consume out of wealth across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735887
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Common correlated effects estimation of heterogeneous dynamic panel quantile regression models
Harding, Matthew C.; Lamarche, Carlos; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2018
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a heterogeneous panel model with lagged dependent variables and interactive effects. The paper adopts the Common Correlated Effects (CCE) approach proposed by Pesaran (2006) and Chudik and Pesaran (2015) and demonstrates that the extension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898624
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Labor market effects of sports and exercise : evidence from Canadian panel data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250155
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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012
We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621724
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Economies of density, team synergies and unobserved heterogeneity : a study of home care services
Bensaïd, Bernard; Croiset, Solen; Gary-Bobo, Robert - 2022
test of organizational efficiency based on the Beardwood-Halton-Hammersley (1959) theorem of combinatorial optimization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288044
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Exploring the heterogeneous effects of state price transparency laws on charge prices, negotiated prices, and operating costs
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
To limit the dramatic growth of U.S. health care expenditures, some states have mandated that medical providers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643545
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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification
de Vries, Jacob J.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2004
In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the distance-decay function. It appears that neither an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325561
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Estimating and Forecasting Generalized Fractional Long Memory Stochastic Volatility Models
Peiris, Shelton; Asai, Manabu; McAleer, Michael - 2016
In recent years fractionally differenced processes have received a great deal of attention due to its flexibility in financial applications with long memory. This paper considers a class of models generated by Gegenbauer polynomials, incorporating the long memory in stochastic volatility (SV)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526121