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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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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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Current trends in the European asset management industry: Lot 1
Schröder, Michael; Borell, Mariela; Davydoff, Didier; … - 2006
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Asset allocation for pension provision
Lahusen, Reinhard - 2002
Financial provision for old age is a serious issue. This paper therefore begins by outlining the pension situation in Germany, arriving at the conclusion that, as matters stand at present, none of the three "pillars" of pension provision - state and occupational pensions and private pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301771
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Dynamic Hedging of Real Wealth Risk
Schubert, Stefan; Broll, Udo - 2005
International and national investors are often exposed to real wealth risks, stemming from volatile asset prices and …, price level and futures price and hence real wealth is stochastic. For a risk averse investor, optimal consumption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296789
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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden
Nykvist, Jenny - 2005
between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321582
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Wealth Dynamics in the 1980's and 1990's: Sweden and the U.S.
Klevmarken, Anders; Lupton, Joseph; Stafford, Frank - 2000
wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …
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Critical Remarks on Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-first Century'
Homburg, Stefan - 2014
This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352018
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Sorgenfreier Reichtum: jenseits von Konjunktur und Krise lebt nur ein Prozent der Bevölkerung
Groh-Samberg, Olaf - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 35, pp. 590-597
Sowohl die Einkommensarmut als auch der Einkommensreichtum haben in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren deutlich zugenommen, zu Lasten der mittleren Einkommensgruppen. Reichtum sollte auch die Freiheit von materiellen Sorgen bedeuten. Trotz der Polarisierung der Einkommensverteilung hat der Anteil...
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The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being
Headey, Bruce; Wooden, Mark - 2004
(HILDA) Survey, this paper demonstrates that wealth, which can be viewed as providing a degree of economic security, is at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261799