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What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets? [PDF]
The goal of this paper is to identify key issues concerning the nature of competition in health care markets and its impacts on quality and social welfare and to identify pertinent findings from the theoretical and empirical literature on this topic. The
Martin Gaynor
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Fiscal federalism with a single instrument to finance government [PDF]
, 2005 The structure of each level of government in the United States has changed over the last 200 years. Wallis (2000) has presented empirical evidence that relates the dominance of each level not to the functions government decides to undertake (the ...
Maravall Rodríguez, Carlos
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Models solvable through the empty-interval method
, 2005 The most general one dimensional reaction-diffusion model with nearest-neighbor interactions solvable through the empty interval method, and without any restriction on the particle-generation from two adjacent empty sites is studied.
A. Aghamohammadi +31 more
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Growth and Productivity: the role of Government Debt [PDF]
We use a panel of 155 countries to assess the links between growth, productivity and government debt. Via growth equations we assess simultaneity, endogeneity, cross-section dependence, nonlinearities, and threshold effects.
António Afonso, João Tovar Jalles
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Mass for Plasma Photons from Gauge Symmetry Breaking
, 2006 We derive the effective masses for photons in unmagnetized plasma waves using a quantum field theory with two vector fields (gauge fields). In order to properly define the quantum field degrees of freedom we re-derive the classical wave equations on ...
Bellan P. M. +8 more
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Root-N Consistent Semiparametric Estimators of a Dynamic Panel Sample Selection Model [PDF]
This paper considers the problem of identification and estimation in panel-data sample-selection models with a binary selection rule when the latent equations contain possibly predetermined variables, lags of the dependent variables, and unobserved ...
Christelle Viauroux, George-Levi Gayle
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Testing the Armey Curve Relationship between Government Size and Economic Growth in Iran A threshold Regression Approach [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2012 The Armey curve demonstrates a non linear relationship between government size and economic growth. This study used threshold regression approach in order to test the Armey curve relationship between government size and economic growth in Iran.
Khosrow Piraee, Hayedeh Noroozi
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The role of fiscal transfers for regional economic convergence in Europe [PDF]
This paper provides evidence on the role of net fiscal transfers to households and EU structural funds for per-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005.
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina +2 more
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Sovereign spreads and financial market behavior before and during the crisis [PDF]
, 2014 JEL: C23, E43, E62, F34, G01, G12, H60This paper aims at shedding some light on the mechanisms of pricing the EMU countries’ sovereign bonds in financial markets.
Gajewski, Paweł
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