ABSTRACT Background This paper analyses why, despite its recognized importance, value‐based healthcare (VBHC) has not gained more prominence in negotiations between health insurers and hospitals in the Netherlands. Methods Data collected by interviews used a standardized questionnaire with closed‐ and open‐ended questions. Respondents included hospital
Diogo L. L. Leao+4 more
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Unbalanced growth and land overvaluation. [PDF]
Hirano T, Toda AA.
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Employed but Unpaid, Volunteers or Paradoxical Surplus? Sierra Leone's Unsalaried Health Workforce
ABSTRACT Background In 2016, 36.5% of Sierra Leone's health workforce consisted of unsalaried clinical staff whose payroll inclusion was deferred. The Ministry of Health introduced policies to reduce this percentage, renewing pledges to introduce health workforce planning.
Pieternella Pieterse, Federico Saracini
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Assessing interconnectedness and systemic importance of Chinese financial institutions. [PDF]
Liu Z, Wang L, Huang C, Yang B.
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A Learning Model with Memory in the Financial Markets
ABSTRACT Learning is central to a financial agent's aspiration to gain persistent strategic advantage in asset value maximisation. The implicit mechanism that transforms this aspiration into an observed value gain is the speed of error corrections (demonstrating, an agent's speed of learning) whilst facing increased uncertainty.
Shikta Singh+6 more
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Does competitive position matter: Investigating the impact of information risk on COE and corporate investment. [PDF]
Saleem S, Usman M, Akhtar MN.
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Deep Learning for Bond Yield Forecasting: The LSTM‐LagLasso
ABSTRACT We present long short‐term memory (LSTM)‐LagLasso, a novel explainable deep learning approach applied to bond yield forecasting. Our method involves feature selection from a large universe of potential features and forecasts bond yields using dynamic LSTM networks.
Manuel Nunes+4 more
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Impact of domestic and foreign investors on ESG disclosure quality in Chinese listed firms: Divergence or convergence? [PDF]
Yin W+4 more
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ABSTRACT This study analyses the implications of uncertainty, the regulatory and economic environment, and the monetary policy regime for bank performance. Employing multiple indicators of bank performance and underlying explanatory factors, we used a novel set of empirical approaches including Fixed Effects, Random Effects, Panel Fully Modified Least ...
Asma Nasim+2 more
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An integrated TOPSIS and ARAS method multi-criteria decision-making approach for optimizing investment portfolios using goal programming and genetic algorithm model. [PDF]
Pisal P+6 more
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