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Long-term health insurance: Theory meets evidence
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021
To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper, we study the German long-term health insurance...
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Hospital capacity reporting in Germany during COVID-19
Reif, Simon; Schubert, Sabrina - 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took …, emergency financing measures were implemented in many countries. We analyze how hospitals in Germany responded to a scheme that …
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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit …
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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care
Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...
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Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation: Evidence from firm-level data
Rammer, Christian; Fernández, Gastón P.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2021
survey allows extrapolating the findings to the macroeconomic level. The results show that 5.8% of firms in Germany were …
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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …
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Soziale Experimente mit dem Pflegebudget (2004-2008): Konzeption des Evaluationsdesigns
Arntz, Melanie; Spermann, Alexander - 2004
In diesem Beitrag wird das Evaluationskonzept zu den geplanten sozialen Experimenten mit dem so genannten personengebundenen Budget (Pflegebudget) vorgestellt. Das Pflegebudget ist eine Geldleistung, die vom Pflegebedürftigen bzw. Pflegeangehörigen zum bedarfsgerechten Einkauf von...
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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of production that may increase productivity. So...
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Evidence on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence: The role of skills shortage
Carioli, Paolo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P. - 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to be the next general-purpose technology, with the potential of performing tasks commonly requiring human capabilities. While it is commonly feared that AI replaces labor and disrupts jobs, we instead investigate the potential of AI for overcoming...
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Regulatory compliance with limited enforceability: Evidence from privacy policies
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Krämer, Julia; Gambato, Jacopo - 2024
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018 introduced stringent transparency rules compelling firms to disclose, in accessible language, details of their data collection, processing, and use. The specifics of the disclosure requirement are objective, and its compliance is easily...
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