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In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical … Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China …
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Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and …
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We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with …
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We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial toindustrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth innonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positivecorrelation between current...
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Is the Chinese growth miracle - a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over twodecades - likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policiesthat have boosted growth? For all its presumed flaws, the particular approach tomacroeconomic and structural policies...
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for the balance and sustainability of China’s own economicdevelopment as well as the associated implications for the … fromattaining full convertibility or meeting other prerequisites for achieving reserve currencystatus. Ultimately, China will …
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’ external balance sheets is shifting to the asset side.However, emerging markets continue to look for more insurance against … balance ofpayments crises, even as self-insurance through reserve accumulation itself becomes riskier.I propose a mechanism … for global liquidity insurance that would meet emerging markets’demand for insurance with fewer domestic policy …
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' external balance sheets is shifting to the asset side. However, emerging markets continue to look for more insurance against … balance of payments crises, even as self-insurance through reserve accumulation itself becomes riskier. I propose a mechanism … for global liquidity insurance that would meet emerging markets' demand for insurance with fewer domestic policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119287
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
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There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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