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Heterogeneity in Hospitals' Responses to a Financial Reform: A Random Coefficient Analysis of The Impact of Activity-Based Financing on Efficiency

Biorn, Erik; Hagen, Terje P.; Iversen, Tor; Magnussen, Jon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The paper examines the heterogeneity with respect to the impact of a financial reform - Activity Based Financing (ABF) - on hospital efficiency in Norway. Measures of technical efficiency and of cost-efficiency are considered. The data set is from a contiguous ten-year panel of 47 hospitals...

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Investigating the relationship between income, health and biomass consumption: a panel data analysis

Oparinde, Adewale - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

, women and children bear most of the health costs. This study employs panel data from 132 countries, from 1971 to 2004, in … types, and they cause adverse health impacts due to indoor air pollution. Within the households that use biomass fuels … economic growth. Second, to investigate the impact of biomass consumption on household health, measured by life expectancy and …

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Threshold Effects of Sovereign Debt: Evidence from the Caribbean

Craigwell, Roland; Greenidge, Kevin; Thomas, Chrystal; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper addresses the issue of threshold effects between public debt and economic growth in the Caribbean. The main finding is that there exists a threshold debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of 55–56 percent. Moreover, the debt dynamics begin changing well before this threshold is...

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Pricing and travelers' decision to use frequent flyer miles: evidence from the U.S. airline industry

Bar, Michael; Chernomaz, Kirill; Diego, Escobari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Previous research on Frequent Flyer Programs (FFP) covered various topics, from analyzing the effect of international airline alliances on domestic travel demand to the effect of airport dominance and FFP on pricing. However, one important constraint in previous empirical research on FFP is the...

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Environment and economic development: determinants of an EKC hypothesis

Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this paper we examine the concept of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in a critical way aiming to justify its existence as well as to propose policies compatible with sustainable development. For this reason, we make use of a data set on CO2 emissions for 32 countries over a 36...

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Dances with Chinese data: are the reform period Chinese provincial panel data reliable?

He, Qichun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

positive and negative respectively, significant at the 5% level, in both LSDV (Least squares dummy variables) estimation and … system GMM (Generalized method of moments) estimation that overcomes the endogeneity of these variables. The test accepts … about half of that on labor force growth in LSDV estimation. The estimated coefficient on the FDI to GDP ratio that captures …

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Frequent flyer programs premium and the role of airport dominance

Escobari, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper estimates a Frequent Flyer Programs (FFP) price premium -- higher fares associated with a larger proportion of travelers using FFP. The results show that FFP affect the entire price distribution, but the effect is larger on lower end fares. In addition, airport dominance increases the...

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Uncertainty and investment in private sector: An analytical argument and a review of the economy of Iran

Mellati, Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The initial theories of investment have emphasized the role of reduction of interest rate and increase in output for encouraging private investment. But there are ample grounds for doubting these theories. As a result, researchers have recently emphasized the importance of uncertainty in...

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Exploring the finance-real economy link in U.S.: Empirical evidence from Panel Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis

Niang, Abdou-Aziz; Diagne, Abdoulaye; Pichery, Marie-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationships between common shocks affecting the real economy and those underlying co-fluctuations in U.S. financial markets. In order to do this, we test for links between these common factors and also use the econometric theory of nonstationary panel...

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Determinants of different internal migration trends: the Italian experience

Napolitano, Oreste; Bonasia, Mariangela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of interregional migration in Italy for the period 1985-2006, during which different migration trends took place. In so doing, in addition to the traditional variables of Harris and Todaro model, the impact of housing prices and externalities variables...

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