The objective of this study is to investigate the 'micro-firm health insurance hypothesis', a hypothesis that the greater the percentage of domestic firms that are 'very small', i.e. have four or fewer employees, the greater the percentage of the US population that will be without health...

This study investigates the impact of federal government budget deficits on nominal long-term interest rates during the post-Bretton Woods era in the United States. The analysis conducts cointegration and Granger_causality tests within an open-economy loanable funds framework The empirical...

This study examines determinants of bank failures in the US over the 1963-91 period. The results indicate that the bank failure rate is an increasing function of the degree of federal deposit insurance coverage, increased competition in financial services, and the real cost of deposits, and a...

A key issue in health care reform in the United States is the need to contain the inflation rate of the consumer price index (CPI) for health care services (IRCPIHC). Although previous literature has provided a variety of arguments regarding the causes of the rising IRCPIHC, relatively little...