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Managed Care Konzepte und Lösungsansätze: Ein internationaler Vergleich aus schweizerischer Sicht
Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
This paper applies the five modified standard criteria generally used in economics for assessing system performances to gauge the contribution of Managed Care to the performance of three health care systems, viz. Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. The maximum contribution of Managed...
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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860
Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …
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GPs' preferences: What price fee-for-service?
Zweifel, Peter; Rischatsch, Maurus; Brändle, Angelika - 2009
In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...
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Endogenous growth and cycles with a continuum of technologies
Horii, Ryo - 2001
When a continuum of technologies is introduced to the model of Grossman and Helpman (1991), both continuous and discrete technological progress may occur as a result of technology choices by private firms. A good is created through R&D based on one of a continuum of technologies that differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332272
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The profitable supression of inventions: Technology choice and entry deterrence
Creane, Anthony; Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2007
AT&T was known for both funding a world-class research lab and delaying deployment of useful innovations from the lab. To explain this behavior we consider a model with an incumbent facing a potential entrant. The incumbent can choose from two technologies for production: old and new. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332466
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Technology choice and international trade
Schmidt, Gabriela - 2010
This paper develops two extensions of the dynamic model presented in Melitz (2003). The first extension consists in the introduction of technology choice between three alternative production technologies: L, M and H. L is assumed to be the same as Melitz's single production technology, while M...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265957
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Climate policy as expectation management?
Narita, Daiju - 2010
It is believed that the primary economic solution to climate change is an introduction of a carbon pricing system anchored to the social cost of carbon, either as a form of tax or tradable permits. Potentially significant externalities accompanying the introduction of emission-reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267264
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Climate policy as expectation management?
Narita, Daiju - 2011
It is often emphasized that the primary economic solution to climate change is the introduction of a carbon pricing system (tax or tradable permits) anchored to the social cost of carbon. This standard argument, however, misses the fact that if emission reduction is sought through the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285486
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Bewertung der Immobilien von Akutkrankenhäusern der Regelversorgung unter Beachtung des neuen DRG-orientierten Vergütungssystems für stationäre Leistungen
Jacob, Dieter; Uhlig, Tilo; Stuhr, Constanze - 2005
evaluation of clinical treatment, that the over capacity in hospital beds will be reduced in the face of increased competition …, and hospitals generally will have to be managed more economically. The valuation of a general acute hospital by a third …. Currently the property of a hospital still represents the basic collateral for a bank loan. The future will see in addition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305687
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The Economics of Hospital Trips and Health Care Reform
Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …
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