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Cross-border purchases of health services : a case study on Austria and Hungary

Obermaier, Andreas J. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

of this phenomenon as well as the barriers to a further increase. Austrian patients may receive health care treatment in … Hungary in three different ways. First, patients may receive benefits in the context of the European Community Regulations … 1408/71 and 574/72 (Category I patients). Second, outside those regulatory structures, Austrian patients travel to Hungary …

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Technology, computers, and wages : evidence from a developing economy

Sakellariou, Chris N.; Patrinos, Harry A. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

a wage premium. The authors review the literature and use data from a survey of higher education graduates in Vietnam …

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Funding growth in bank-based and market-based financial systems : evidence from firm level data

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

The authors investigate whether firms'access to external financing, to fund growth differs between market-based, and bank-based financial systems. Using firm-level data for forty countries, they compute the proportion of firms in each country that relies on external finance, and examine how that...

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Imputed welfare estimates in regression analysis

Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Lanjouw, Peter - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors discuss the use of imputed data in regression analysis, in particular the use of highly disaggregated welfare indicators (from so-called"poverty maps"). They show that such indicators can be used both as explanatory variables on the right-hand side and as the phenomenon to explain on...

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Telecommunication reforms, access regulation, and Internet adoption in Latin America

Estache, Antonio; Manacorda, Marco; Valletti, Tommaso M. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

of the reform agenda in telecommunications regulation could accelerate adoption of the Internet in Latin America …

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Discovery and development : an empricial exploration of"new"products

Klinger, Bailey; Lederman, Daniel - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The authors use disaggregated export data to explore the relationship between economic discovery and economic development. They find that discoveries, or episodes, when countries begin exporting a new product are not limited to so-called"dynamic"industries. Rather, they also occur in traditional...

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Averting the old-age crisis : technical annex

Palacios, Robert J. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

"Averting the old age crisis: policies to protect the old and promote growth,"the publication for which this technical annex provides supporting documentation, is the third in a series of major World Bank policy research reports. Unlike its predecessors,"The East Asian miracle"and"Adjustment in...

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Exports, university-industry linkages, and innovation challenges in Bangalore, India

D'Costa, Anthony P. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

The success of the Indian software industry is now internationally recognized. Consequently, scholars, policymakers, and industry officials everywhere generally anticipate the increasing competitiveness of India in high technology activities. Using a structural framework, the author argues that...

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Market development in the United Kingdom's natural gas industry

Juris, Andrej - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

The author shows how, in the United Kingdom, government and industry participants have responded to challenges created by opening the natural gas industry to competition. He concludes that, as a result of cooperation between the government and industry participants, appropriate mechanisms can be...

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The case for tradable remedies in WTO dispute settlement

Bagwell, Kyle; Mavroidis, Petros C.; Staiger, Robert W. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

In response to concerns over the efficacy of the WTO dispute settlement system, especially in regard to its use by developing countries, Mexico has tabled a proposal to introduce tradable remedies within the Dispute Settlement Understanding. The idea is that a country that has won cause before...

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