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in dieser Studie der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich aus ökonomischer Sicht ein Screening Programm bei geeigneter Wahl der … Screening-Technik lohnt. Dies ist der Fall, wenn die Kosten des Screenigs und der dann folgenden Infektions … entscheidend, wieviel Fälle durch ein Screening erkannt werden, und inwieweit sich die Infektionsraten und damit die Prävalenzraten …
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This paper characterizes the relationship between entrepreneurial wealth and aggregate investment under adverse selection. Its main finding is that such a relationship need not be monotonic. In particular, three results emerge from the analysis: (i) pooling equilibria, in which investment is...
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of dismissal reduce the incentive of firms to invest in screening applicants, therefore increasing the uncertainty about …
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screening model of the hard drug market in which dealers use payment and punishment options to screen between high and low risk …
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the screening hypothesis. In this study, sheepskin effects are found to exist, but are not stable across individuals … screening hypothesis. …
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fails to screen out the inefficient types. In addition to the imperfect screening in the credit market, the inefficient type …
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We analyze the impact of bank competition on the equilibrium quality of loans in a formal model where banks do not observe the type of loan applicants, i.e. face an adverse selection problem, nor borrowers’ effort, i.e. also face a moral hazard problem. The main finding is that there exists an...
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This study investigates the existence of economies of scale in the provision of breast and cervical cancer screening … cancer screening activities. Output was measured by women served, women screened and cancers detected, separately by breast …-fixed factors (e.g., percent of women eligible for screening by the NBCCEDP). 144 out of 147 program-years demonstrated significant …
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In this paper, I study the wage a firm sets to attract high abilityworkers (hipo's) in situationsof unemployment. I show that the higher unemployment, the larger afirm's incentives to sorthigh and low ability workers. Moreover, workers will signal their(high) ability in situationsof (high)...
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The paper studies information processing imperfections in a fully rational decision-making network. It is shown that imperfect information transmission and imperfect information acquisition in a multi-stage selection game yield information overload. The paper analyses the mechanisms responsible...
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