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Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider : a measurement error approach
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …
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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Consumer Welfare
Jayawardhana, Jayani - 2013
The welfare implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have garnered considerable attention and are complicated since the consumer delegates some decision-making authority to the physician, who is exposed to advertising as well. In this paper, I develop and estimate a structural model...
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Medical Consumption over the Life Cycle : Facts from a U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Jung, Juergen; Tran, Chung - 2014
health spending simultaneously controlling for time effects (i.e. institutional changes and business cycles effects) and … estimation bias into predictions of health expenditures per age group, especially for individuals older than 60 years. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197244
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Medical Consumption Over the Life Cycle : Facts from a U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Jung, Juergen; Tran, Chung - 2010
In this paper we construct life-cycle profiles of U.S. health care spending using data from the Medical Expenditure … Panel Survey (MEPS). We separate pure age effects on health expenditure from time effects (i.e. productivity effects … trend. Time and cohort effects introduce a significant estimation bias into predictions of health expenditures per age group …
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Rent indices for housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998
Hoffmann, Johannes; Kurz, Claudia - 2002
In several studies, hedonic methods have been used successfully for the ex post assessment of the accuracy of inflation measurement. Most of those studies relate to high-tech products, with respect to which traditional methods of compiling price indices often fail. We apply hedonic methods to...
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A Microeconometric Characterisation of Household Consumption Using Quantile Regression
Ronning, Gerd; Schulz, Niels - 2002
The paper uses micro cross-section data from the GfK consumer panel for econometric demand analysis of private households in Germany. Contrary to most research which considered \average behavior we extend this approach to consumer behavior for di®erent \intensities of consumption. Our...
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Estimating the Valuation of Advertising
Dewenter, Ralf - 2003
Mass-medias are characterized by at least two interrelated markets. Therefore,the media firm has to satisfy two interdependent demands,the demand for magazines and the demand for advertising.The utility of the readers is affected by the information of the editorial and the advertising share.The...
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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...
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Distribution of budget shares for food : an application of quantile regression to food security
Moss, Charles B.; Oehmke, James F.; Lyambabaje, Alexandre; … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-12
This study examines, using quantile regression, the linkage between food security andefforts to enhance smallholder coffee producer incomes in Rwanda. Even though in Rwanda smallholder coffee producer incomes have increased, inhabitants these areas still experience stunting and wasting. This...
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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. …
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