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This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data from wave 7 of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 7) with emphasis on the role of risk preferences and the availability of health facilities in one's own community, neither...
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individual search behavior depends on design details. This paper reports the first classification and comparison of several …
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Consumers' beliefs in the benefits of reducing fat intakes, especially saturated fat, and of increasing calcium intake … from such foods dairy products, depend upon the acquired information related to diet and health. This study develops new … health information measures from different sources. The monthly information indexes, constructed for 1980-93, show that the …
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We examine a foreign firm's choice between exporting and foreign direct investment (FDI) under country-specific cost uncertainty. Unlike exporting, FDI exposes foreign and home firms to common shocks. This results in a correlation of strategies, harming the firms. However, the exposure to common...
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behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD). Total of two cases are considered: one where domestic shareholders completely own …
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This paper completely characterizes two public ownership solutions in convex production economies, known respectively as the Proportional Solution (PR), and the Equal Benefit Solution (EB), by adopting the axioms Moulin (1990a,b) discussed and introducing two other axioms, Pareto Independence...
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This paper examines the implementation of two public ownership solutions in convex production economies with differentiable production functions. The two public ownership solutions we focus on are the proportional and equal benefit solutions. Two "natural" mechanisms which doubly implement the...
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This paper examines the implementation of various solutions in differentiable concave production economies with one privately owned input, one output, and publicly owned production technology. The public ownership solutions we focus on are the Proportional Solution (PS) and the Equal Benefit...
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This paper characterizes two public ownership solutions in convex production economies with multiple inputs and multiple outputs, known respectively as the proportional and equal benefit solutions (Roemer and Silvestre (1989)), by means of axioms of upper and unanimously lower bounds of welfare...
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