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Real output costs of financial crises: a loss distribution approach

Kapp, Daniel; Vega, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

therefore analyze GDP losses in terms of frequency (number of loss events per period) and severity (loss per occurrence). Crises …' frequency, severity, and the associated global output losses over periods of five years are identified on the basis of Laeven …

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The political economics of social health insurance: the tricky case of individuals’ preferences

Pfarr, Christian; Schmid, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Social health insurance systems can be designed with different levels of state involvement and varying degrees of redistribution. In this article we focus on citizens’ preferences regarding the design of their health insurance coverage including the extent of redistribution. Using a...

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What triggers multiple job holding? An experimental investigation.

Dickey, Heather; Watson, Verity; Zangelidis, Alexandros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper presents an empirical examination of individuals’ motivations for multiple-job holding or moonlighting. Theoretical models of moonlighting suggest that individuals to hold a second job for either financial reasons (they face hours-constraints in their first job) or non-pecuniary...

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Using rank and discrete choice data to estimate health state utility values on the QALY scale

Brazier, J; Rowen, D; Yang, Y; Tsuchiya, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Objective: Recent years have seen increasing interest in the use of ordinal methods to elicit health state utility values as an alternative to conventional methods such as standard gamble and time trade-off. However, in order to use these health state values in cost effectiveness analysis using...

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Sağlıkta Dönüşümün Ampirik Analizi

Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The efficiency of Turkish health system, which was restructured by the health transformation framework, depends on the mutual compliance of both health service providers and demanders. The future and success of the new health system may be determined by solving problems that were generated from...

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Türkiye'de Sağlık Hizmetleri ve Finansmanı

Celikay, Ferdi; Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Increasing and sustaining the quality of life for people can be possible when they are healthy. Good health conditions require good quality and reachable health care services. Because of the market failure as a result of asymmetric information, public sector as well as private one provides...

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Federalism, Party Competition and Budget Outcome: Empirical Findings on Regional Health Expenditure in Italy

Giardina, Emilio; Cavalieri, Marina; Guccio, Calogero; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In the last decade, Italy has experienced a considerable decentralization of functions to the regions. This transformation has been especially relevant for the National Health System that has de facto assumed a federal system design. The federal reform aimed at disciplining public health...

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Employee Responses to Health Insurance Premium Increases

Goldman, Dana; Leibowitz, Arleen; Robalino, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Objective: To determine the sensitivity of employees’ health insurance decisions—including the decision to not choose health maintenance organization or fee-for-service coverage—during periods of rapidly escalating healthcare costs. Study Design: A retrospective cohort study of employee...

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The NICE Cost-Effectiveness Threshold: What it is and What that Means

McCabe, C; Claxton, K; Culyer, AJ - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been using a cost-effectiveness threshold range … for NICE to use, and what the other factors are that NICE should consider have all been the subject of much discussion. In … this article, we briefly review hese questions, provide a critical assessment of NICE’s utilization of the incremental cost …

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Improving the Quality of Care in Developing Countries

John, Peabody; Tauiwalo, Mario; Robalino, David; Frenk, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Although the quantity rather than quality of health services has been the focus historically in developing countries, ample evidence suggests that quality of care (or the lack of it) must be at the center of every discussion about better health. This paper discusses the cost effectiveness of...

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