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Quality and location choices under price regulation

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2002

In a model of spatial competition, we analyse the equilibrium outcomes in markets where the product price is exogenous. Using an extended version of the Hotelling model, we assume that firms choose their locations and the quality of the product they supply. We derive the optimal price set by a...

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Quality and location choices under price regulation

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2002

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Nonprofit and For-Profit Competition with Public Alternatives in an Urban Setting with Congestion

III, H. Shelton Brown - In: International Regional Science Review 28 (2005) 3, pp. 347-372

This theoretical analysis describes nonprofit-public and for-profit-public competition in an urban setting. The model resembles a Hotelling game with endogenous firm location, prices, and facility congestion. Because residents have free mobility, rent is also endogenous. The analysis identifies...

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Belgium: Enhancing the Cost Efficiency and Flexibility of the Health Sector to Adjust to Population Ageing

Sorbe, Stéphane - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Belgium has a good record in delivering accessible care, but adaptation to population ageing will be complicated by the … shift towards a more demand-driven system could be encouraged by phasing out over-prescriptive hospital regulations. In … organise their care. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of Belgium (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/belgium …

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Geographical agglomeration: Ellison and Glaeser's index applied to the case of Belgian manufacturing industry

Bertinelli, Luisito; Decrop, Jehan - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 5, pp. 567-583

concentration of the manufacturing sector in Belgium. To assess the degree of concentration, individual plant data on wage and …

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Working Paper 07-10 - The Belgian long-term care system

Willemé, Peter - Federal Planning Bureau, Government of Belgium - 2010

This report describes the organization of the Belgian long‐term care system. It can be characterized as a mixed system with extensive public care provision and substantial support from informal care mainly within the family. While the current volume and quality of services appears to be...

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Advancing Cervical Cancer Prevention in India: Insights from Research and Programs

Krishnan, Suneeta; Madsen, Emily; Porterfield, Deborah; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in India, accounting for 17 percent of all cancer deaths among women age 30 to 69 years. At current incidence rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the annual burden of new cases in India will increase to nearly 225,000...

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Health in All Policies as a Strategic Policy Response to NCDs

Lin, Vivian; Jones, Catherine; Wang, Shiyong; Barbd, Enis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...

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A Cost Radiography and the Premise of the Application of the ABC Method in Overnight Hospital Stay

Selina, Ionete Toplicianu; Valerica, Toplicianu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIII (2013) 1, pp. 1304-1308

overnight hospital stay. This transposition of methods has as a goal to make it easier to make decisions based on the …

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Community Midwifery Education Program in Afghanistan

Mohmand, Khalil Ahmad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

In the immediate post conflict period, Afghanistan's health services were in a deplorable and chaotic state. Access and utilization of reproductive health services and skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first month after delivery are key to saving those women at risk of dying due...

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