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In this paper we evaluate the QALY loss, which may be assigned to the prevalence of specific chronic illnesses and physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a...
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Power index research has been a very active field in the last decades. Will this continue or are all the important …
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This paper examines the pricing of public debt in a quantitative macroeconomic model with government default risk. Default may occur due to a fiscal policy that does not preclude a Ponzi game. When a build-up of public debt makes this outcome inevitable, households stop lending such that the...
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This paper introduces the Werden-Froeb Index (WFI) to assist in evaluating merger-specific efficiencies in horizontal … mergers. The index measures the weighted average reduction in marginal costs required to restore pre-merger equilibrium prices … has relatively low information requirements. We propose to use the index as a natural complement to concentration measures …
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The aim of the paper is to obtain confidence intervals for the tail index and high quantiles taking into account the …
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