This paper considers the spatial dynamics of nurse-patient relationships within hospitals, primarily in the USA, under …

critical veil of ignorance of counterparty risk would otherwise continue and hence the uncertainty about the valuation of large … encourage bankers to take a more long term time horizon in decision-making and to reduce excessive risk-taking. Banks and funds … of the existing Basel arrangements - to create a better cushion against risk and adverse shocks to profitability …

healthcare in 2007 was $2,964, the USA spent $7,290. Yet in that same period, the health of America’s citizens relative to those …In 1970 the USA spent 7% of its GNP on healthcare, in 200716%. Whereas the OECD average per capita expenditure on … up around healthcare in the USA. Because the magnitude of the relative decline in healthcare in the USA is poorly …

The hazard of mortality is usually presented as a function of age, but can be defined as a function of the fraction of … with a positive age-specific force of mortality at all ages, the expectation of life at age x is the average of the … reciprocal of the survival-specific force of mortality at ages after x, weighted by life-table deaths at each age after x, as …

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …

the elderly, of the families with married couples and single mothers, and the cost of children. Our consumption results …