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Why are Residents Reluctant to Consult Attending Physicians?
Swank, Otto H. - 2009
A physician performs two tasks: making diagnoses and determining treatments. To reduce medical error, residents are supposed to consult their supervisors when they face uncommon circumstances. However, recent research shows that residents are reluctant to do so. This paper presents a model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159812
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Why Are Residents Reluctant to Consult Attending Physicians?
Swank, Otto H. - 2009
A physician performs two tasks: making diagnoses and determining treatments. To reduce medical error, residents are supposed to consult their supervisors when they face uncommon circumstances. However, recent research shows that residents are reluctant to do so. This paper presents a model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325698
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Oligopolistic Competition in Price and Quality
Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C.W. - 2008
We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325731
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Who can predict their own Demise? Accuracy of Longevity Expectations by Education and Cognition
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Erdogan Ciftci, Esen; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015
Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...
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Biodiversity Prospecting over Time and under Uncertainty: A Theory of Sorts
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
Biodiversity prospecting refers to the exploration of the commercial value of genetic and biochemical resources. In this chapter, we study a drug producing pharmaceutical firm (PF) that searches for potentially useful chemicals made by wild organisms in a conservation area. This PF is able to...
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Mental Health Literacy, Beliefs and Demand for Mental Health Support among University Students
Acampora, Michelle; Capozza, Francesco; Moghani, Vahid - 2022
This paper assesses the impact of a mental health literacy intervention on the demand for mental health support among university students. We run a field experiment with 2,978 university students from one of the largest Dutch universities. The literacy intervention provides information on the...
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Risk and Loss Aversion, Price Uncertainty and the Implications for Consumer Search
Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Bruzikas, Tadas - 2016
Do the choices of consumers who search for a product's best price exhibit risk neutral, risk averse or loss averse risk attitudes? We study how in a problem of sequential search with costless recall the relation between a consumer's willingness to pay for continued search and the level of price...
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Dedicated Doctors : Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010
Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …
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Do Experts Incorporate Statistical Model Forecasts and Should They?
Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans; Paap, Richard - 2011
Experts can rely on statistical model forecasts when creating their own forecasts. Usually it is not known what experts actually do. In this paper we focus on three questions, which we try to answer given the availability of expert forecasts and model forecasts. First, is the expert forecast...
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Customer Directed Advertising and Product Quality
Esteban, Lola; Hernandez, Jose M.; Moraga-Gonzalez, … - 2001
This paper studies the relationship between three key elements of the marketing mix, namely, price, product, and promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general advertising technology for the study of three promotional...
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