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Price sensitivity and demand for healthcare services: Investigating demand-side financial incentives using anonymised claims data from Switzerland
Salvi, Irene; Cordier, Johannes; Kuklinski, David; … - 2023
Background: Compulsory healthcare insurance in Switzerland entails a deductible system for cost-sharing between insurer and insuree up to a chosen deductible1. No study has so far tested the presence of price sensitivity for healthcare resources consumption after exceeding one's chosen...
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Green 'agrowth' as a third option: Removing the GDP-growth constraint on human progress
Van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2015
The debate on growth versus the environment is usually summarized as optimists believing in limitless growth versus pessimists seeing environmental and resource limits to growth. This opposition defines the main strategies: namely, striving for green growth versus some anti-growth approach. In...
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Agrarrelevante Extremwetterlagen und Möglichkeiten von Risikomanagementsystemen: Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Gömann, Horst; Bender, Andrea; Bolte, Andreas; … - 2015
weather and vegetation. According to the results and in the light of various adaptation options there is currently no further …
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Aktuelle Forschung in der Gartenbauökonomie: Nachhaltigkeit und Regionalität - Chancen und Herausforderungen für den Gartenbau. Tagungsband zum 2. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenb...
Dirksmeyer, Walter (contributor);  … - 2016
asparagus under various types of plastic foils, and the adaptation to changing climate conditions were presented. This Thünen …
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Aktuelle Forschung in der Gartenbauökonomie: Tagungsband zum 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche Göttingen
Dirksmeyer, Walter (contributor);  … - 2015
[Vorwort] Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die...
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The ingredients of successful adaptive programming in Tanzania: A QCA analysis
Kelsall, Tim; Laws, Ed; Befani, Barbara - 2021
reference these terms, or similar ideas such as 'doing development differently' and problem-driven iterative adaptation. There …, issue-based governance initiative in Tanzania. …
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Nature-based green infrastructure: A review of African experience and potential
Dupar, Mairi; Henriette, Elvina; Hubbard, Eric - 2023
climate change adaptation alone will cost Africa up to $50 billion annually, equivalent to about 3% of regional GDP. Given …, and contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. This report explores the existing and potential role … of NBS-GI in disaster risk management and climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as wider development …
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Human capital and education policy: Evidence from survey data
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021
Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2021 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that...
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Consequences of future climate policy: Regional economies, financial markets, and the direction of innovation
von Schickfus, Marie-Theres - 2021
With the Paris Agreement of 2016, 189 nations signed a legally binding document to keep global warming below 2 C, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C. It was recognized that this would reduce climate change impacts substantially. All signatories submitted "Intended...
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The Europe 2020 strategy at midterm: Disappointing assessment calls for an urgent change driven by long run priorities
Aiginger, Karl - 2014
Europe 2020 tried to overcome the failures of the Lisbon Strategy. Goals set by the European commission were allowed to be adapted to take account of the starting position and the preferences of member countries ("national ownership"), the monitoring process was improved and the coordination...
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