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Competition for the international pool of talent: Education policy and student mobility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In equilibrium, one country offers high educational quality for high tuition fees, while the other country provides a low quality and charges ...
Haupt, Alexander   +2 more
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Incomparable Punishments: How Economic Inequality Contributes to the Disparate Impact of Legal Fines and Fees

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Low-level misdemeanor and traffic violations draw tens of millions of people into local courts to pay fines and fees each year, generating billions of dollars in revenue.
Lindsay Bing   +2 more
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Hospitalization costs among immobile patients with hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke in China: a multicenter cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background In this study, we aimed to analyze the hospitalization costs for immobile patients with hemorrhagic stroke (IHS) or ischemic stroke (IIS) in China and to determine the factors associated with hospitalization costs.
Hongpeng Liu   +9 more
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The Determinants of Management Expenses [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper develops a model which explains the determinants of the management expenses charged by U.S. equity funds. The study shows that for high quality managers, an increase in quality is associated with higher fees. In contrast, as the quality of the
Michael K. Berkowitz, Yehuda Kotowitz
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A Theory of User-Fee Competition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We develop a two-region model where the decentralized provision of spillover goods can be financed by means of taxes or user fees. In order to enforce the fees regions have to invest in exclusion.
Fuest, Clemens, Kolmar, Martin
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The impact of EU price rules: Interchange fee regulation in retail payments. CEPS-ECRI Working Paper 4 February 2020 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Debit and credit cards have gradually increased in importance as instruments for retail payments. This has prompted anti-trust authorities at both national and European levels to investigate and limit the interchange fee-based revenue model of four-party
De Groen, Willem Pieter
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Making Mountains of Debt Out of Molehills: The Pro-Cyclical Implications of Tax and Expenditure Limitations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper presents evidence that property tax limits have detrimental effects on state and local revenues during recessions. Property tax limits cause states to rely on income–elastic revenue sources, such as the income tax or charges and fees.
McCubbins, Mathew D., Moule, Ellen
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The impact of user fees on health service utilization in low- and middle-income countries: how strong is the evidence?

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of user charges on the uptake of health services in low- and middle-income countries. METHODS: A systematic search of 25 social science, economics and health literature databases and other sources was performed to ...
Mylene Lagarde, Natasha Palmer
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Retail fees of depository institutions, 1994-99 [PDF]

open access: yes
Under legislative mandate, the Federal Reserve Board has for many years sponsored annual surveys of the retail fees charged by depository institutions. Analysis of the data for the most recent six years (1994-99) shows that for the most common types of ...
Timothy H. Hannan
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Iceland and development aid in the era of the MDGs: a case study of an Alma Ata inspired primary healthcare project in southern Malawi

open access: yesDevelopment Studies Research, 2018
The monitoring of relevant health indicators is important in the examination of work that aims to improve health, not only globally, as for example, through the Millennium Development Goals 2000–2015, but also at the national, regional and/or sectoral ...
Geir Gunnlaugsson   +1 more
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