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Characteristics of Hospitals Participating in the Transforming Episode Accountability Model.

open access: yesJAMA Health Forum
Shashikumar SA   +5 more
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Profits and Economic Development [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that high profits stymie economic development rather than enable it.
Dan Schwab, Eric Werker
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The persistence of economic profit

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2013
Recently, as practitioners and researchers from developed countries have increasingly probed the activities of emerging economies, what exactly drives the long-term economic profitability of firms in China has become the most salient issue in the above fields.
Feng-Jyh Lin, Yi-Min Chen, Fang-Yi Lo
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Economic geography and the distribution of profits

Journal of Urban Economics, 2004
In modern economies, the amount of profits distributed to shareholders is far from being negligible. We show that the way they are distributed among agents matters for the space-economy. For example, the existence of mobile rentiers is sufficient to make the symmetric configuration unstable for all transport cost values and to allow for the partial ...
Picard, Pierre M.   +2 more
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Economic Measurement of Capital and Profitability

Recherches économiques de Louvain, 1995
SummaryIn this paper, we intend to offer a critical review of the different concepts of capital and the different methods which are used to measure it. At the same time, we propose an endogenous approach which tries to measure the capital stock in terms of value, explicitly referring to depreciation as an economic variable decided by the firm. Applying
Francisco JAVIER ESCRIBÁ-PÉREZ   +1 more
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Acquiring Economic Notions: Profit

International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
The study examines how an economic concept changes when children undergo different kinds of experiences simulated by means of tutorial and critical training. The final sample was composed of 68 third-grade Italian children, subdivided into a control group (given only a pre and post-test interview about buying and selling) and three experimental groups
BERTI, ANNA EMILIA   +2 more
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The Economics of For-Profit Education

2010
For-profit higher education has grown rapidly in the United States over the last 20 years. Examples include vocational schools, technical training, in-house corporate education, the DeVry Institute, Phoenix University, and other new for-profit ­colleges.
Sam Papenfuss, Tyler Cowen
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The Economic Essence of Profit and Profitability Under Socialism

Problems in Economics, 1969
In connection with increasing the role of profit and profitability under the conditions of the economic reforms carried out in the socialist countries, economists of the Soviet Union and of other socialist countries have been confronted by the task of intensifying the theoretical elaboration of problems of profit and profitability and of means of ...
M. Atlas, R. Vinokur
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