Background: In health economic evaluation, utility associated with a health state is outcome-oriented and usually measured using the QALY methodology. Even though there is consistent evidence of utility not only being derived from outcomes but also from procedures, process utility has not been...

National sports associations in Slovakia are the umbrella organizations for individual types of sports and help achieve the objectives of public policies in the field of sports. In the Slovak Republic, these sports organizations are predominantly funded from public funds. This paper focuses on...

HPV infections can cause substantial burden in females and males as it is associated with several genital cancers, in addition to genital warts. Traditional economic evaluations often focus on quantifying cost-effectiveness, however, it is increasingly recognized that vaccinations may generate...

Vor dem Hintergrund der europäischen Klimaschutzziele und der Herausforderungen der nationalen Energiewende- und Klimapolitik hat die Bundesregierung 2023 mehrere Gesetzesvorhaben vorangetrieben. Während die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes ("Heizungsgesetz") und das damit verbundene Gesetz...

Der Wandel der globalen Industrieproduktion in den letzten 15 Jahren ist vor allem durch den Aufstieg Chinas zur Industrienation gekennzeichnet. Die Marktanteilsgewinne Chinas führten insbesondere zu relativen Verlusten bei der Industrieproduktion in den USA und Westeuropa. In vielen westlichen...

Motivated by the fact that some regulations involve extra costs for those firms at a size beyond a critical threshold, this paper contributes to the analysis of the welfare distortions due to these regulations. In the context of a duopoly, our results show that social welfare is not monotonic...

Planet Earth, with its plethora of natural (im)balances, has a venerable age of 4.54 billion years; the (industrial) imprint placed by the human species on it, considered to be not negligible, counts of just little over two centuries; while the digital/IT&C/virtual existence of man, in what we...

In light of demographic change, health expenditures of the German state should rise considerably in future. On the basis ofthe 15th population forecast of the German Federal Statistical Office, health expenditures of the German public health care system areprojected until the year 2050. As the...

Using a new database of all patents issues in Mexico between 1870 and 1911, this paper explores the impact of the vast wave of technology imports into Mexico during the nineteenth century period of globalization. Historians have established that massive technology imports made possible sustained...

Innovationen entstehen zunehmend durch vernetzte Forschung und Kooperationen, die über Unternehmens-, Branchen- und Ländergrenzen hinweg erfolgen. Standards können dazu einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten, indem sie einen reibungslosen Austausch von Daten ermöglichen und die Vernetzung...