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On the effect of prospective payment system on hospital efficiency and competition for patients in Germany
Herwartz, Helmut; Strumann, Christoph - 2011
attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … as a Malmquist index decomposition in pure technical efficiency change, are analyzed for periods before and after the … reform. We implement a two-stage semi-parametric efficiency model that allows for spatial interdependence among hospitals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902422
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On the demand for telemedicine : evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
Busso, Matias; Gonzalez, Maria P.; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2021
Telemedicine can expand access to health care at relatively low cost. Historically, however, demand for telemedicine … demand for telemedicine experienced after the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions. We … find a 233 percent increase in the number of telemedicine calls and a 342 percent increase in calls resulting in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012586138
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The Effect of Affordable Care Act on the Competition in the Post Patent Ethical Drug Market
Yu, Yu; Zhao, Yi - 2014
Purpose: US policy makers have been looking at various ways to curb rising health care costs in USA, including ways to … hole, all other policy changes lead to increased usage of the focal molecule, and the efforts to increase insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036939
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How technologial potentials are undermined by economic and behavioural responses : the treatment effect of endogenous energy efficiency measures
Meier, Helena; Tode, Christian - 2015
carbon emissions. We investigate the actual treatment effect of energy efficiency measures and therein compare actual demand … energy awareness, we find economic and behavioural responses that counteract expected savings from energy efficiency. Results … and increased effectiveness and efficiency of policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294618
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Effectiveness of climate policies : empirical methods and evidence
Dieler, Julian - 2016
This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742402
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Regional analysis of Eastern province feeder road project
Kingombe, Christian K.M. - 2012
consumption emerged in the longer-term. The main results are robust to corrections for various sources of selection bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569607
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Experience Effect in the Impact of Free Trial Promotions
Reza, Sadat - 2020
While the use of free-samples is extensive across industries, the effects of free-samples across individuals with varying levels of usage have yet to be systematically examined. The models discussed in the literature consider targeting only the current nonusers of a product. In this research, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823415
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Beyond Cash : Assessing Externality and Behaviour Effects of Non-Experimental Cash Transfers
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2018
In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938155
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Beyond Cash : Assessing Externality and Behaviour Effects of Non-Experimental Cash Transfers
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2018
In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940357
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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583582