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schemes in operation. Approximately 16 per cent of the economically active population are members of medical schemes. White … beneficiaries represent 19 per cent of the total population; black beneficiaries increased by 422.1 per cent, while Whites increased …
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Many retailers find it useful to partition customers into multiple classes based on certain characteristics. We consider the case in which customers are primarily distinguished by whether they are willing to wait for backordered demand. A firm that faces demand from customers that are...
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This study tests the theory of rationing, examining changes in household consumption behavior during the transition to … a market economy in Poland, 1987–92. A model of consumption under rationing is developed and fitted to prereform … rationing is estimated. Estimates from the virtual AIDS yield plausible values for price and income elasticities. The AIDS model …
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Health policy will be a major issue in Britain's next general election. The Labour government is committed to a substantial increase in funds for the National Health Service (NHS) and has eliminated tax relief for private health insurance. The Conservative Opposition party favors subsidizing...
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Restructuring the electricity market may secure efficiencies by moving away from cost-of-service regulation, with typically (but not necessarily) time-invariant prices, and allowing prices to reflect how costs change. Charging "real time" prices requires that electricity use be measured...
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is market-clearing. The other feasible trading institutions lead to rationing. To learn on which trading institutions to … the choice of institutions, market outcomes are determined by an equilibrium concept that allows for rationing. We find … that full coordination on the market-clearing institutions without any rationing is a stochastically stable outcome …
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are significantly less expensive and less effective. If financial constraints were to lead to rationing of defibrillators …
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The first goal of the present work focuses on the need for different rationing methods of the The Global Change and … contains a variety of rationing methods to be ap- plied to micro-economic disequilibrium models of the lagom model family. This … toolbox consists of well known rationing methods, and of rationing methods provided specifically for lagom. To ensure an easy …
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quantity rationing. The properties of Xetra auctions are investigated and possibilities to improve the auction mechanism are …
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discount factor converges to one, in contrast to the Coase conjecture. We also show that rationing the good is never optimal …
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