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Abstract This study presents a model of optimal contracting for health services in the presence of excess demand and waiting times. We assume that: i) hospitals differ in their demand for treatment; ii) potential demand is private information of the provider; iii) specialists can dump patients;...
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Abstract Long waiting times are a common feature and a major concern in many public health care systems. They are often characterized as inefficient because they are a burden to patients without generating any gains for providers. There is an ongoing debate in Germany regarding the preferential...
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Purpose – This paper aims to present a framework enriching currency risk analyses based on information theory. Design/methodology/approach – Information-theoretic measures of predictability (entropy rate) and co-dependence (mutual information) are used to enhance existing methods of...
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econophysics methods of correlation analysis, RMT and MST.  …
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This paper applies non-linear methods to analyze and predict the daily VIX index which is one of the most important stock indexes in the world. The aim of the analysis is to quantitatively show if the corresponding time series is a deterministic chaotic one and if one or more days ahead...
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results show that the incidence of informal employment is directly linked with EPL, volatility, and labor bargaining power. We …
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estimation methodology, we investigate the degree and direction of dissemination in the volatility of economic growth. Our …’s economic growth volatility to affect other countries. Thus, an economic recession for example in one country, does not affect … all countries equally across regime type. Second, growth volatility is not simply a North-South phenomenon, but a South …
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Abstract This paper uses a dynamic framework of a small open economy to study the volatility effects of partially … stabilizing, i. e. lead to a lower volatility than a fully anticipated monetary policy shock of the same form. (ii) However, we …
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This paper examines the stability, predictability, volatility, time varying risk premiums and persistence of shocks to … volatility in the ten Middle Eastern and African (ME&A) emerging stock markets. Although the majority of ME&A markets only … finds ME&A markets to be unpredictable. The findings on volatility in the emerging market indicate that eight out of the ten …
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the conditional volatility models of the GARCH class. We find that the differences between the opening price of one day … effects of modifying the direct impact of daily innovations on volatility and reducing the estimated overall persistence of …
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