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On Hospital Competition: Quality, Efficiency, and Ownership
Herr, Annika - 2009
) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451161
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FORECASTING ENERGY SUPPLY AND POLLUTION FROM THE OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Managi, Shunsuke; Opaluch, James J.; Jin, Di; … - 2004
Sound energy and environmental policies require reliable forecasts of production and pollution, as well as supply response to policy actions. In this study, we describe a model for forecasting long-term production and pollution in the offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444227
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Analysis of Acquirer Stock Performance in Mergers and Acquisitions in Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry
Zivot, Harrison A - 2010
This paper develops a framework that analyzes how mergers and acquisitions in Alberta’s oil and gas industry affect stock prices. In this experiment, a multivariate regression is applied to several industry-specific variables to determine if they have impacts on the abnormal stock returns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468725
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Regulation and Political Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Investigation of Discretion in Reporting Earnings and Oil and Gas Reserves Estimates
Kurdi, Ammr - 2010
This study investigates the use of discretion by oil and gas companies in reporting financial performance and oil and gas reserve estimates during times of high political scrutiny resulting from increases in energy prices. Hypotheses tested in prior literature state that companies facing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475002
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Accounting and the economic development of the oil and gas sector in Libya: historical review, theoretical analysis and empirical investigation
Mahmud, Mustafa Bakar - 1997
The oil sector and the choice of accounting system in Libya are very important factors that have the potential to affect Libya's economic development. Revenue from the oil sector forms the bedrock of Libya's economy and the accounting system used to report the performance of the oil sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481360
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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China
Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004
Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437491
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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Oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria
Oyefusi, Aderoju - 2007
This paper examines oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria focusing on the economic dynamics of resource … of oil-dependence in Nigeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441496
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Pricing and operational efficiencies in the livestock feed market in Ondo State, Nigeria
Oguntade, Adegboyega E.; Mafimisebi, Taiwo E. - 2010
feed industry in Ondo State, Nigeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442740