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Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the Contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship - Economic Theory and Practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina
Schmid, Andreas - 2007
eignet. Ein Exkurs zum amerikanischen Gesundheitswesen vermittelt dem Leser den n?tigen Hintergrund. Eine kritische …
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Consequences of the TRIPS-Agreement for the provision of pharmaceuticals in developing countries
Oppermann, Julia - 2008
Arzneimittel zur Behandlung dieser Krankheit. Zum anderen wurde auch der Mangel wirksamer Medikamente gegen vernachlässigte … Immatrialgüterrechte wesentliche Vorraussetzung für die konstante Entwicklung innovativer Arzneimittel seien. Kritiker des TRIPS … Arzneimittel gegen vernachlässigte Krankheiten bis zum 30.06.2008 überprüft. Unter Berücksichtigung des kurzfristigen …
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The district health information system (DHIS) as the support machanism for strengthening the health care system
Van den Bergh, Christa - 2009
The purpose of this study was to show how information from the District Health Information System can be used to empower managers to make evidence-based decisions that will strengthen the health care system to reduce the under-five mortality rate.A quantitative, contextual, exploratory...
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Innovationsprozesse in der Medizintechnik in Deutschland
Plagens, Manfred - 2001
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Innovationsprozessen der medizintechnischen Industrie in Deutschland am Beispiel der bildgebenden Verfahren. Einen geeigneten Analyserahmen, um die komplexen Verflechtungen und Erfolgs-determinanten zu erfassen, bietet der Clusteransatz Michael Porters. Der...
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Trend and Cycles in Coal and Oil Prices in the Long Run: A Schumpeterian Approach
Bloch, Harry; Sapsford, D. - 2011
We contribute to the task of identifying trends and cycles in energy prices by examining very long series of prices for coal and oil, going back to 1650 in the case of coal and 1859 in the case of oil. We find annual rates of increase in real price of greater than two percent are found for coal...
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The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles Revisited: Finite Lives and Cyclical Variation in Idiosyncratic Risk
Storesletten, Kjetil; Telmer, Chris I; Yaron, Amir - 2000
This paper investigates the welfare costs of business cycles in a heterogeneous agent, overlapping generations economy which is distinguished by idiosyncratic labor market risk. Aggregate variation arises both in terms of aggregate productivity shocks and countercyclical variation in the...
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment-productivity nexus: SKOPE Research Paper No. 38, Spring 2003
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...
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The properties of cycles in South African financial variables and their relation to the business cycle
Boshoff, Willem Hendrik - 2006
The goal of this thesis is twofold: it aims, firstly, at a description of cycles in SouthAfrican financial variables and, secondly, at the evaluation of the relationshipbetween cycles in financial variables and the South African business cycle. The studyis based on the original business cycle...
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Real earnings and business cycles: new evidence
Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2009
In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and strengths. This may serve to produce a distorted picture of wage cyclicality. Here, we deploy frequency domain methods that allow us to asses...
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