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Exploring the heterogeneous effects of state price transparency laws on charge prices, negotiated prices, and operating costs
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
payer mix; and (3) hospital size and market competition. We also conduct counterfactuals to predict price changes of non … publicly report their charge prices. Our study evaluates the heterogeneous effects of this price transparency policy. We use a … synthetic control method that allows for heterogeneous treatment effects. We find that the price transparency policy not only …
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Improving risk adjustment in the Czech Republic
Chalupka, Radovan (contributor) - 2009
adjustment ; Managed competition ; Health insurance ; Pharmaceutical Cost Groups ; Czech Republic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790295
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On the memory of products of long range dependent time series
Leschinski, Christian - 2016
This paper derives the memory of the product series xtyt, where xt and yt are stationary long memory time series of orders dx and dy, respectively. Special attention is paid to the case of squared series and products of series driven by a common stochastic factor. It is found that the memory of...
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Generalized autoregressive method of moments
Creal, Drew; Koopman, Siem Jan; Lucas, André; … - 2015
We introduce a new estimation framework which extends the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) to settings where a subset of the parameters vary over time with unknown dynamics. To filter out the dynamic path of the time-varying parameter, we approximate the dynamics by an autoregressive process...
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Do political institutions influence international trade? : measurement of institutions and the Long-Run effects
Krenz, Astrid - 2016
The past literature presents ambiguous evidence about the bidirectional and causal influences between countries ́institutional framework and their trading activity. In our analysis, we investigate the relationship between institutions and trade constructing a measure of institutions from the...
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Understanding firms' inflation expectations using the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey
Richards, Simon; Verstraete, Matthieu - 2016
Inflation expectations are a key determinant of actual and future inflation and thus matter for the conduct of monetary policy. We study how firms form their inflation expectations using quarterly firm-level data from the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey, spanning the 2001 to 2015...
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Fighting African corruption when existing corruption-control levels matter in a dynamic cultural setting
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
Purpose - This paper assesses the determinants of corruption-control with freedom dynamics (economic, political, press and trade), government quality and a plethora of socio-economic factors in 46 African countries using updated data. Design/methodology/approach - A quantile regression approach...
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Fighting corruption with cultural dynamics : when legal-origins, religiousinfluences and existing corruption-control levels matter
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing countries? Why are some countries more effective at battling corruption than others? To investigate these concerns we examine the determinants of corruption-control throughout the conditional distribution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410195
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Fighting corruption when existing corruption-control levels count : what do wealth-effects tell us in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in the corruption battle? To investigate these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410198
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Fighting corruption when existing corruption-control levels count : what do wealth effects tell us?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in the corruption battle? To investigate these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410217