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The Impact of Public-Private Partnerships on Hospital Performance: A review study

open access: yesRāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2019
Objective: Public-private partnerships (PPP) have been used recently in many countries for reforming the structural health sector. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of PPP models in hospitals on raising the awareness of health ...
Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh   +2 more
doaj  

Designing Cost‐Effective Carbon Payments to Induce Cellulosic Feedstock Production for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perennial bioenergy crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass, and crop residues have the potential to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and mitigate carbon emissions. However, high establishment costs, delayed returns, and risk–return profiles that diverge from those of conventional crops can hinder incentives to adopt ...
Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao
wiley   +1 more source

Comparisons Between Public and Private Sector Union Wage Differentials: Does the Legal Environment Matter? [PDF]

open access: yes
A stylized fact in the growing literature on public sector labor markets is that estimates of public sector union wage premia are significantly lower than estimates of private sector union wage premia. In this paper I investigate the hypothesis that this
Joseph Tracy
core  

Dollars for Drops: Abatement Cost of Water for Irrigation in the Colorado River Basin

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Colorado River is a lifeline for more than 40 million people in the western United States. However, with climate change diminishing snowpacks in the Rocky Mountains and increasing demands from agriculture and urban areas, the river's flow has become insufficient to meet all the competing needs.
Shahin Bahrami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers [PDF]

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The absence of a competitive market may enable public-sector workers to extract rents from taxpayers in the form of high pay, especially when public-sector workers are unionized. On the other hand, this rent extraction may be suppressed by the ability of
David Neumark, Jan K. Brueckner
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The Financial Status and Local Credit Market Conditions of U.S. Farms Engaged in Multiple Borrowing

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural producers often borrow from multiple lenders, raising concerns about credit risk and monitoring. We construct detailed farm‐level measures of how debt is distributed across lenders and examine how farm financial status and the physical presence of local lenders are linked to this practice.
Sylvanus Gaku   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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