related group) for most patients (inlier patients) and is reimbursed by a cost sharing payment for patients with exceptionally … patient as an outlier patient, as well as the optimal payment per DRG and the optimal cost sharing parameter. For the case …

level of debt is reached: (i)investment falls precipitously as it should when it becomes optimal to default, (ii) economic …-empt default and exact punitive interest rates. We find a systematic response of investment, particularly when property rights are … with concessional rates. Thus, while debt relief is likely to improve economic policy (and especially investment) in …

In this paper two hypotheses about the relationship between monetary policy and investment in the context of the … hypothesis is based on the reject of that idea. An investment equation for the Brazilian economy was estimated (1848-2005), and a … that a negative correlation between current expectation of restrictive monetary policy and current investment rose after …

order to assess the firm’s behavior with respect to investment and service quality. The observed results do not contradict … the theoretical expectation of underinvestment. There is evidence that investment since privatization was sufficient to … improve the firm’s performance with respect to its own past results; nevertheless, investment was insufficient to raise …

. Furthermore, the large Brazilian hydropower system requires special treatment if we are to have investment in hydro and in thermal …