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Within the last five years, Canada, Sweden and New Zealand have joined the ranks of the United Kingdom and other countries in issuing government bonds that are indexed to inflation. Some observers of the experience in these countries have argued that the United States should follow suit. This...
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In this paper, we seek to provide empirical documentation of the effect of Activity-Based Costing (ABC) information on … product and customer-related decisions made by managers in a company. Proponents of ABC argue that when an entity implements … ABC, it reaps at least two important benefits: process improvements that promote more efficient use of resources and hence …
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The theory of cost-shifting posits that nonprofit hospitals respond to negative financial shocks by raising prices for privately insured patients. We examine how hospitals responded to the sharp reductions in their endowments caused by the 2008 stock market collapse. We find that the average...
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We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes hospital referrals for privately-insured births in California. The function is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer, the distance traveled, and plan and severity-specific hospital fixed effects...
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The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological …
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such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …
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This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …
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, and Szembrot, 2014), which uses self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey …
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summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …
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We introduce the interview assignment problem, which generalizes the one-to-one matching model of Gale and Shapley (1962) by introducing a stage of costly information acquisition. Firms learn preferences over workers via costly interviews. Even if all firms and workers conduct the same number of...
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