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Monitoring cartel behavior and stability : evidence from NCAA football
Humphreys, Brad R.; Ruseski, Jane E. - In: Southern economic journal 75 (2009) 3, pp. 720-735
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Pre-College Human Capital Investments and Affirmative Action : A Structural Policy Analysis of US College Admissions
Bodoh-Creed, Aaron - 2017
We study a structural model of college admissions framed as a contest between a continuum of students for enrollment in a continuum of colleges where the contest outcome is decided by the students' choice of human capital (HC). Students have private information about their learning costs, and...
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Optimal Risk Adjusted Unhedged Sports Wagers With Attached Promotions
Stanhope, Stephen - 2023
Sports books frequently offer bettors a variety of promotions as either marketing tools or incentives to enter into …
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Take a chance on ABBA
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shapir, Offer Moshe - 2017
sequence is fair. We thus argue that it might be useful for other sports and contests in general to consider adopting the ABBA …
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Krankheit im Zentrum : Gestaltung von krankheitsorientierten Spitalstrukturen aus kybernetisch-konstruktivistischer Sicht
Erbsen, Astrid - 2012
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Identifying age-cohort-time effects, their curvature and interactions from polynomials : examples related to sickness absence
Biørn, Erik - 2013
In the paper is considered identification of coefficients in equations explaining a continuous variable, say the number of sickness absence days of an individual per year, by cohort, time and age, subject to their definitional identity. Extensions of a linear equation to polynomials, including...
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Competition Leverage : How the Demand Side Affects Optimal Risk Adjustment
Bijlsma, Michiel - 2011
We study optimal risk adjustment in imperfectly competitive health insurance markets when high-risk consumers are less likely to switch insurer than low-risk consumers. First, we find that insurers still have an incentive to select even if risk adjustment perfectly corrects for cost differences...
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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care
Cremer, Helmuth - 2008
We consider a two-period model. In the first period, individuals consume two goods: one is sinful and the other is not. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate this effect. In the second period, individuals can...
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The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health
De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2018
What are the cumulative effects of health shocks over the life-cycle? The answer depends on the nature of persistence of bad health and the extent to which it changes individuals' economic circumstances. We measure the lifetime costs of bad health using a rich structural model that can reproduce...
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Cost disease of health care and no growth
Russo, Letícia Xander - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 4, pp. 717-728
This study examines whether health care is affected by Baumol’s cost disease in a scenario of no growth. Baumol's model … working hours. In both scenarios the cost disease does not affects the health care. However, in the second scenario an … relative cost of health care will increase over the years. Therefore, although the cost disease does not affect the health …
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