Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,411
Cover Image
Income redistribution and access to innovations in health care
García-Alonso, María del Carmen; O'Donnell, Owen - 2001
We study the impact a redistribution of income has on the decisions of a health care innovator and the utility of consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its price and increases the utility of some of the consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290644
Cover Image
Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach
Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2013
This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326814
Cover Image
Wirtschaftliche Mobilität dürfte nach Lockerung deutlich steigen – aber auch die Zahl der COVID-19-Fälle
Holtemöller, Oliver; Rieth, Malte - 2021
In Deutschland wurden Anfang März in einigen Bereichen Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung des Coronavirus gelockert; so wurde die … Einflussfaktor für die Ausbreitungsgeschwindigkeit des Coronavirus, zumal die Lockerungen bislang nicht mit einer systematischen … der Neuinfektionen und der Todesfälle in Deutschland um 25% erhöhen. Da sowohl ein fortgesetzter Lockdown als auch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012627991
Cover Image
Economic mobility likely to increase significantly after relaxation - but also number of COVID-19 cases
Holtemöller, Oliver; Rieth, Malte - 2021
In Germany, measures to contain the coronavirus were relaxed in some areas at the beginning of March; in many places …. However, the frequency of contact is a major factor influencing the rate at which the coronavirus spreads, especially since … points and the number of new infections and deaths in Germany by 25%. Because both continued lockdown and relaxations have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473432
Cover Image
New evidence on the role of remittances on health care expenditures by Mexican households
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - 2009
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269518
Cover Image
Sharing Economy: Mehr Chancen als Risiken?
Eichhorst, Werner; Spermann, Alexander - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 96 (2016) 6, pp. 433-439
employment, appropriate regulation is needed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875504
Cover Image
The political economy of incentive regulation: Theory and evidence from US states
Guerriero, Carmine - 2008
The determinants of incentive regulation are a key issue in industrial policy. I study an asymmetric information model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270939
Cover Image
Access by the poor in Latin America's utility reform: Subsidies and service obligations
Chisari, Omar O.; Estache, Antonio; Waddams Price, Catherine - 2001
ongoing voluntary connection to services, particularly when the product is considered to be a ‘merit good’. – regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279363
Cover Image
Building on the Hamburg Statement and the G20 Roadmap for Digitalization: Toward a G20 framework for artificial intelligence in the workplace
Twomey, Paul - 2018
Building on the 2017 Hamburg Statement and the G20 Roadmap for Digitalization, this paper recommends a G20 framework for artificial intelligence in the workplace. It proposes high level principles for such a framework for G-20 governments to enable the smoother, internationally broader and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902061
Cover Image
Antitrust Failures: The Internet Giants
Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930714