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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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Optimal contact tracing and social distancing policies to suppress a new infectious disease

Pollinger, Stefan - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 133 (2023) 654, pp. 2483-2503

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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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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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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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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden

Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax approach. The income distribution is carefully characterized with the help of administrative register data and we employ behavioral elasticities reflecting the perceived distortionary...

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[Rezension von: Lindbeck, Assar, ..., The insider-outsider theory of employment and unemployment]

Blanchflower, David G. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 100 (1990) 403, pp. 1370-1373

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The Stockholm School of Economics revisited, ed. by Lars Jonung : Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991

Presley, John Ralph - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 102 (1992) 412, pp. 676-677

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[Rezension von: Lundberg, Erik Filip, The development of Swedish and Keynesian macroeconomic theory and its impact on economic policy]

Trautwein, Hans-Michael - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 108 (1998) 448, pp. 917-918

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