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Plugging gaps in payment systems : evidence from the take-up of new medicare billing codes

Clemens, Jeffrey; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - 2021

Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We show that the take-up of these new billing codes is gradual and exhibits substantial variations across markets and...

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Natural disasters, government spending, and the fiscal multiplier

Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata; Yang, Weonho - 2015

We estimate the fiscal multiplier associated with shocks to government spending. We consider increases in government spending in the U.S. states in the wake of natural disasters to capture spending shocks that are both unexpected and unrelated to the preceding state of the economy. We find that...

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Financing and funding health care : optimal policy and political implementability

Nuscheler, Robert; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact of three modes of health care financing, namely,...

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Taxing sin goods and subsidizing health care

Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - 2008

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Does earmarking lead to more per capita public health spending?

Khanal, Mukesh; Mintz, Jack M.; Potter-MacKinnon, Janice - 2024

The World Health Organization has advocated the earmarking of health-related taxes to mobilize revenues to be spent on public health spending. While there are certain advantages and disadvantages in the use of earmarked taxes to fund healthcare, its ability to mobilize revenues will depend on...

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Catastrophic medical expenditure risk

Flores, Gabriela; O'Donnell, Owen - 2013

Medical expenditure risk can pose a major threat to living standards. We derive decomposable measures of catastrophic medical expenditure risk from reference-dependent utility with loss aversion. We propose a quantile regression based method of estimating risk exposure from cross-section data...

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Macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks : new evidence using natural disaster relief in Korea

Yang, Weonho; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - 2012

; natural disaster relief expenditure ; narrative approach ; structural vector-autoregressive model …

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The determinants of subnational public spending allocation for disaster risk reduction in Bangladesh

Karim, Azreen; Noy, Ilan - 2020

disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 subdistricts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … does proximity to the centres of Dhaka and Chittagong. Public spending for adaptive disaster risk reduction, as …

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Government spending and tax revenue decentralization and public sector efficiency : do natural disasters matter?

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023

We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government spending efficiency scores via data envelopment...

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Social health insurance : the major driver of unsustainable fiscal policy?

Hagist, Christian; Klusen, Norbert; Plate, Andreas; … - 2005

During the next decades the populations of most developed countries will grow older as a result of the low level of birth rates since the 1970s and/or the continuously increasing life expectancy. We show within a Generational Accounting framework how unsustainable the public finances of France,...

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