As a contribution to the search for suitable and sustainable solutions to finance rising medical care expenditures, the book proposes a typology of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, based on the dimensions of basic vs. supplementary services and mandatory vs. voluntary coverage, to...

Das Buch liefert theoretische Hintergründe, praktische Anwendungen und aufschlussreiche Fallbeispiele für die Markenbildung im Gesundheitsmarkt. In vielen Bereichen der Gesundheitswirtschaft ist Marke als Management-Instrument und Erfolgsprinzip noch nicht angekommen. Das betrifft alle...

This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of economic and institutional...

The Business of Motion Picture Production and Distribution -- Co-Financing Film Projects with External Investors -- Principal Agent Problems in Co-Financing Relationships -- Empirical Investigation of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard -- Managerial Implications and Developments in the...

Literaturübersicht über empirische Studien und theoretische Erklärungsansätze -- Darstellung und Bewertung von Erklärungsmodellen des Underpricing-Phänomens auf Basis der Agency-Theorie sowie Ableitung von Hypothesen zur Überprüfung von Einflussfaktoren -- Empirische Untersuchung des...

Das Problem -- Eine private Arbeitslosenversicherung für Deutschland -- Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung: Erfahrungen und Vorschläge -- Zur Empirie des Trennsystems -- Schlussbetrachtungen.

Deals with the topic of out-licensing as a novel form of risk-sharing collaborations. The phenomenon of out-licensing is illustrated by three major case studies of Novartis, Schering and Roche as well as several smaller case studies. This book applies the Nobel Prize awarded economic theory of...

The book addresses the mechanisms of culture in the digital age. Its author, professor at Higher School of Economics, tackles a number of highly relevant issues: the modus operandi of culture in a market environment, the role of money in the process and some methods intended to help consumers in...