Einleitung -- Einordnung der Problemstellung und Überblick über die Literatur -- Modellierung stochastischer Losgrößenplanungsprobleme -- Uni-kriterielle Modelle für die stochastische Losgrößenplanung bei unsicherer Nachfrage -- Eine multi-kriterielle Modellformulierung des stochastischen...

Projektmanagement ist herausfordernd: Innovative Ziele müssen durch interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit und unter Zeit- und Kostendruck erreicht werden. Die komplett überarbeitete 5. Auflage vermittelt Ihnen die notwendigen Kompetenzen. Grundlage dafür bilden moderne und praxisbewährte...

Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the inclusion of non-cash benefits in broader measures of resources have failed to take adequate account of the pattern of needs associated with the greater use of health and education...

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during...

This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural experiment. In January 2004, copayments of 10 euros for the first doctor visit in each quarter have been introduced for all adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals...

Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is universal, co-payments and deductibles are moderate, and premia are based on income. However, they may buy private insurance instead if their income exceeds the compulsory...

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...

Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that rectify these geographic imbalances it is vital to understand what factors determine health workers'...