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Gatekeeping in health care
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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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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Efficient Bayesian inference for multiple change-point and mixture innovation models
Giordani, Paolo (contributor); Kohn, Robert (contributor) - 2006
Time series subject to parameter shifts of random magnitude and timing are commonly modeled with a change-point approach using Chib's (1998) algorithm to draw the break dates. We outline some advantages of an alternative approach in which breaks come through mixture distributions in state...
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Technology shocks and the labour-input response : evidence from firm-level data
Carlsson, Mikael (contributor); Smedsaas, Jon (contributor) - 2006
We study the relationship between technology shocks and labor input on Swedish firm-level data using a production function approach to identify technology shocks. Taking standard steps yields a contractionary contemporaneous labor-input response in line with previous studies. This finding may,...
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What should fiscal councils do?
Calmfors, Lars; Wren-Lewis, Simon - 2011
The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...
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The Swedish fiscal policy council : watchdog with a broad remit
Calmfors, Lars - 2012
The Swedish Fiscal Policy Council (FPC) set up in 2007 is one example of the recent international trend to create independent fiscal watchdogs. The FPC has established itself as an important participant in the Swedish economic policy discussion. The FPC has small resources and a broad remit...
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Why are firms that export cleaner? : international trade and CO2 emissions
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen … - 2014 - This version: May 2014
This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...
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Curbing shocks to corporate liquidity : the role of trade credit
Amberg, Niklas; Jacobson, Tor; Schedvin, Erik von; … - 2016
Using data on exogenous liquidity losses generated by the fraud and failure of a cash-intransit firm, we demonstrate a causal impact on firms' trade credit usage. We find that firms manage liquidity shortfalls by increasing the amount of drawn credit from suppliers and decreasing the amount...
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Optimal unemployment insurance design : time limits, monitoring, or workfare?
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of...
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