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Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery
Cutler, David M.; Huckman, Robert S.; Kolstad, Jonathan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality inputs, as oligopolistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037692
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Cost-containment in health care: The case of Spain from the eighties up to 1997
López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of health care expenditure in Spain during the period 1980-1997, and henceforth to comment on the cost containment measures put forward to control its growth. The paper is divided into three separate sections. The first offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248447
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Cost-containment in health care: The case of Spain from the eighties up to 1997
López, Guillem - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of health care expenditure in Spain during the period 1980-1997, and henceforth to comment on the cost containment measures put forward to control its growth. The paper is divided into three separate sections. The first offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704865
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Immigration and health care utilization in France : new evidences from the Health, Health Care and Insurance survey
Jusot, Florence; Berchet, Caroline - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707566
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Exploring the mediating role of relationship quality in online services
Keating, Byron W.; Alpert, Frank; Kriz, Anton; Quazi, Ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper is the first to examine the mediating role of relationship quality in the online context. By investigating this major tenet of customer relationship management theory in this nascent service setting, this paper clarifies the interaction between service quality and relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110399
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Competition and Quality: Evidence from the NHS Internal Market 1991-1999
Propper, Carol; Burgess, Simon; Abraham, Denise - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. We examine whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022133
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Competition and Quality: Evidence from the NHS Internal Market 1991-1999
Burgess, Simon; Gossage, Denise; Propper, Carol - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2003
Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. We examine whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005577257
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Services-led industrialization in India: Assessment and lessons
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
discusses the nature of services, their distinction from products, and their categorization. It provides an overview of India … growth potentials. Based on this evidence, it appears that India’s manufacturing sector development may have been constrained … of different growth paths, the challenges of education and manpower training to support and sustain India’s development …
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Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?
Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790263
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The Impact of Globalization on Employment Generation in India: The case of emerging 'Big Shopping Malls and Retailers'
Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Singh, Kanhaiya - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
necessarily global and expansion of this idea is an integral part of globalisation. Growth of organized retail sector in India is … better policy decisions concerning both organized and unorganized retails in India. It is in this context, using primary … and Shopping malls in big cities in India? -- Whether the new pattern of business is more employment intensive? The …
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