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This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random...
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In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). Due to extending the coverage beyond LTCI approved services and agencies, personal budgets may improve care outcomes compared to the...
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large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …
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This paper investigates the role intangible capital plays for economic growth in different sectors in Germany. It … Germany. In nearly all sectors investments in design and computerized information are larger in the UK. In contrast, German …
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verbreiteten Konzept der effektiven Grenzsteuerbelastung steht. Ein Vergleich mit tariflichen Steuersätzen deutet auf steuerliche … effective marginal tax rates and thus can show whether an investment is favoured or discriminated against by a simple comparison …
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creditors play an active role in disciplining. Block purchases have a monitoring role in Belgium and Germany, but not in France …
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We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison … of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future …
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