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Decreasing Serial Cost Sharing under Economies to Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
We consider the problem of cost sharing in the presence of increasing returns to scale and potential strategic behavior on the part of consumers. We show that any smooth and strictly monotonic mechanism for which a Nash equilibrium exists for all ...
Frutos, María Ángeles de
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REVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE OF COST-SHARING MECHANISM IN NATIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

open access: yesФармакоэкономика, 2015
The article gives a review of international experience of using of cost-sharing mechanism to prevent the risk of patient’s moral hazard. Theoretical background and types of cost-sharing, protection mechanisms for vulnerable social groups, national cost ...
Natalia Nikolayevna Sisigina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-Responsiveness of Conservation Practice Adoption: A Revealed Preference Approach

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2004
While there is current interest in reorienting agricultural policy toward environmental and resource conservation goals, relatively little is known about the influence of cost on conservation adoption decisions or about how farmers combine multiple ...
Erik Lichtenberg
doaj   +1 more source

Temporal trends and variation in out-of-pocket expenditures and patient cost sharing: evidence from a Chinese national survey 2011–2015

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Objectives This study aims to examine: (1) temporal trends in the percentage of cost-sharing and amount of out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) from 2011 to 2015; (2) factors associated with cost-sharing and OOPE; and (3) the relationships between province ...
Vicky Mengqi Qin   +7 more
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Characterizing Distribution Rules for Cost Sharing Games [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In noncooperative cost sharing games, individually strategic agents choose resources based on how the welfare (cost or revenue) generated at each resource (which depends on the set of agents that choose the resource) is distributed.
Gopalakrishnan, Ragavendran   +1 more
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A Proposal for Developing the Cost Sharing of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia in Light of Some International Experiences

open access: yesالمجلة العربية لضمان جودة التعليم الجامعي, 2016
: The present study aims to explore the current situation of cost sharing of higher education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , to compare it to the higher education in England and America, and to identify differences and  similarities and differences ...
Mohamed Mohamedy Mokhles
doaj   +1 more source

Utilization and cost sharing for preventive cancer screenings

open access: yesHealth Policy Open, 2021
Objective: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) eliminated cost sharing for certain preventive cancer screenings beginning in September 2010.
Nicholas Jennings   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey of Techniques for Discovering, Using, and Paying for Third-Party IoT Sensors

open access: yesSensors
The Internet of Things (IoT) includes billions of sensors and actuators (which we refer to as IoT devices) that harvest data from the physical world and send it via the Internet to IoT applications to provide smart IoT services and products.
Anas Dawod   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost-sharing in Parking Games [PDF]

open access: yesDiscrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
In this paper, we study the total displacement statistic of parking functions from the perspective of cooperative game theory. We introduce parking games, which are coalitional cost-sharing games in characteristic function form derived from the total ...
Jennifer Elder   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing cost-sharing practices for pharmaceuticals and health care services among four central European countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The paper reviews the existing cost-sharing practices in four Central European countries namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia focusing on patient co-payments for pharmaceuticals and services covered by the social health insurance.
Boncz, I.   +11 more
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