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Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Nuscheler, Robert (contributor) - 2005

We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...

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Optimal lockdown and social welfare

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2020

This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the … postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social …-maximal lockdown saving lives at the cost of reducing average utility at a given period, there exists always a stricter lockdown, which …

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Welfare and generational equity in sustainable unfunded pension systems

Auerbach, Alan J.; Lee, Ronald Demos - In: Journal of public economics 95 (2011) 1/2, pp. 16-27

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Bequest motives: a comparison of Sweden and the United States

Laitner, John; Ohlsson, Henry - In: Journal of public economics 79 (2001) 1, pp. 205-236

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The macroeconomic effects of lockdown policies

Auray, Stéphane; Eyquem, Aurélien - In: Journal of public economics 190 (2020), pp. 1-12

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Efficient policy interventions in an epidemic

Bisin, Alberto; Gottardi, Piero - In: Journal of public economics 200 (2021), pp. 1-9

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Optimal sin taxes

O'Donoghue, Ted; Rabin, Matthew - In: Journal of public economics 90 (2006) 10/11, pp. 1825-1849

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Altruism, fertility, and the value of children : health policy evaluation and intergenerational welfare

Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - In: Journal of public economics 93 (2009) 1/2, pp. 280-295

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Concerns for equity and the optimal co-payments for publicly provided health care

Hoel, Michael (contributor) - 2005

In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy decisions, it is often argued that an increase in co-payments is unacceptable as it will be particularly harmful to the less well-off in society. The present paper derives...

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Tax/subsidy policies toward vector-borne infections diseases

Gersovitz, Mark; Hammer, Jeffrey S. - In: Journal of public economics 89 (2005) 4, pp. 647-674

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