Insider Ownership and Investment Efficiency
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between insider ownership and investment efficiency in Indian publicly listed firms, utilising panel data spanning 2001 to 2015. It explores how agency conflicts contribute to suboptimal capital investment decisions. Our analysis reveals that increased insider ownership is associated with reduced investment
Bibek Bhatta
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Withdrawing or withholding treatments in health care rationing: an interview study on ethical views and implications. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2022 Strand L +3 more
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Multitasking, Competition and Provider Payment [PDF]
Many important dimensions of quality health care are difficult to observe, monitor, and motivate. This paper examines how competition among providers interacts with payment system incentives when the allocation of provider effort among multiple such ...
Karen Eggleston
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ESG Performance and Credit Risk: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Companies
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on credit risk using a sample of manufacturing firms listed on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share markets from 2009 to 2021. Employing fixed effects, the generalised method of moments, and instrumental variable models, we find that ...
Yanan Wang +4 more
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The “Elderly” in Medicine: Ethical Issues Surrounding This Outdated and Discriminatory Term
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019 The objective of this study was to investigate and describe how the use of the term “elderly” contributes to bias and problems within the medical system. A systematic review of the relevant literature and history was conducted.
Javad Hekmat-panah MD
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Why is health treatment for the elderly less expensive than for the rest of the population? Health care rationing in Germany [PDF]
The consequences of population ageing for the health care system and health care costs may be less severe than is commonly assumed. Hospital discharge data from Germany’s largest health insurer (AOK) show that the care of patients during their last year ...
Hilke Brockmann
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Maternal and neonatal outcomes in Gaza amid armed hostilities in 2025
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract Objective This study documents facility‐based maternal, obstetric, and neonatal outcomes and associated conflict‐related exposures and living conditions among pregnancy‐related encounters at Al‐Helou Maternity Hospital in Gaza from late April to early September 2025, with a small number of additional encounters recorded at Al‐Shifa Medical ...
Shaymaa Abuhaiba +16 more
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Rationing in Medicine: A Presupposition for Humanity and Justice [PDF]
Limited resources are the permanent condition in health care. Rationing, according to H. Kliemt, is the distribution of limited resources below market prices to all people in need for these resources.
Gundolf Gubernatis
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Impacts of Social Assistance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Poor Remote Communities
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing social assistance to poor populations in remote communities in times of crises, such as pandemics, is challenging but crucial. This paper examines how food assistance during the COVID‐19 pandemic affected people's behaviour, using our surveys among over 400 rural communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. Food assistance
Yoshito Takasaki +2 more
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Some Obstacles to Applying the Principle of Individual Responsibility for Illness in the Rationing of Medical Services [PDF]
, 2010 Lately, more and more authors have asserted their belief that one of the criteria which, together with the medical ones, can and should be applied in the policy of selecting and/or prioritizing the patients in need for the allocation of medical resources
Huzum, Eugen
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