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Health care expenditure and the state of health care sector in selected European Union countries
Hady, Joanna; Leśniowska, Małgorzata - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 25-36
The article deals with the issue of health care, focusing on expenditure allocated to it. The first part of the article reviews some selected European Union countries, analyzing their expenditure on their health care sectors. The second part brings an analysis of expenditure on health care in...
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Erfolgreich Altern : Lebensbedingungen in der Kindheit und soziale Ungleichheit haben großen Einfluss
Brandt, Martina; Deindl, Christian; Hank, Karsten - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 7, pp. 11-14
In dieser Studie wird untersucht, inwieweit die Lebensbedingungen in der Kindheit und das Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit die individuelle Chance beeinflussen, erfolgreich, das heißt gesund und aktiv, zu altern. Europaweite Daten, die im Rahmen der SHARELängsschnittstudie erhoben wurden,...
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Community-based health insurance and social capital : a review
Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5
Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...
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The role of trust in the resource allocation process of an old university
Manochin, Melina M. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 38-52
The issue of effective management accounting systems, and especially the resource allocation procedures, have attracted considerable interest among higher education institutions in recent years. Relevant previous research indicates that several universities adopt different approaches to the...
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Study on the collusive corruption in supervision of bank credit
Nan, Xu-guang; Kao, Meng-chun - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 1, pp. 93-103
induces serious internal collusive corruption. This article analyzes the collusive corruption between credit supervisors and … ; collusive corruption ; supervision ; principal-agent …
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The determinants of economic corruption : a probabilistic approach
Mohamed Abdel Rahman Salih - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 155-169
The determinants of corruption have been debated by economists and non-economists for the past few decades. However, no … consensus has been reached about the exact determinants of corruption and as well the direction of the effect of some the known … key variables used in corruption studies. Most previous studies exploit some sort of index as a measure of corruption. The …
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Corruption and firm performance : evidence from Greek firms
Athanasouli, Daphne; Goujard, Antoine; Sklias, Pantelis - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 43-67
This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data …. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of … ‘administrative corruption’, whereby firms engage in corrupt practices and bribery of government officials. We contrast the firm …
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¿Por qué el distanciamiento ideológico disminuye la provisión de bienes públicos? ; una explicación basada en el empleo clientelar
Gatica Arreola, Leonardo A. - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 27-51
This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...
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Revue d'épidémiologie et de santé publique
Issy-les-Moulineaux : Elsevier Masson; anfangs: Paris : … - 24.1976 -
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Behavioral biases in economic and financial knowledge : are they the same for men and women?
Kudryavtsev, Andrey; Cohen, Gil - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 15-52
Contemporary research documents various psychological aspects of economic thought and decision-making. The main goal of our study is to analyze the role of the hindsight bias (Fischhoff [20]) and the anchoring bias (Tversky and Kahneman [53]) in perceiving economic and financial information,...
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