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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function : a note

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009

; Innovation ; Pharmaceuticals ; Health care expenditure ; Cointegration …

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Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations?

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor) - 2007

We investigate voting behavior on human rights in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Our central question is whether countries with a low human rights record systematically oppose human rights resolutions. An instrumental account of voting would suggest that these countries aim to...

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Does terror threaten human rights? : evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor); … - 2007 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...

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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...

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Ask your doctor or pharmacist! : on the effect of self-dispensing physicians on pharmaceutical coverage

Bannert, Matthias; Iselin, David - 2015

In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...

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The (anti-)competitive effect of intellectual property rights

Peneder, Michael; Thompson, Mark; Wörter, Martin - 2019

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a large sample of Swiss firms. We find that better appropriability conditions at the industry level raise the number of competitors. However, conditional on the given...

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Does it really make a difference? : health care utilization with two high deductible health care plans

Pichler, Stefan; Ruffner, Jan - 2016

Deductibles are commonly used to tame increasing health care costs. Numerous studies find that higher deductibles reduce health care utilization. In this paper we compare utilization in Switzerland between two health care plans with deductibles of 1,500 CHF and 2,500 CHF (1CHF = 1$) per calendar...

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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? : the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically,...

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Does high inflation cause central bankers to lose their job? : evidence based on a new data set

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2007

This paper introduces new data on the term in office of central bank governors in 137 countries for 1970-2004. Our panel models show that the probability that a central bank governor is replaced in a particular year is positively related to the share of the term in office elapsed, political and...

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Development aid and international politics : does membership on the UN Security Council influence World Bank decisions?

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2007

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank … temporary UN Security Council membership and the number of World Bank projects a country receives, even after accounting for … economic and political factors, as well as regional and country effects. The size of World Bank loans, however, is not affected …

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