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Copayments for Ambulatory Care in Germany: A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach

Schreyögg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...

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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits?: Empirical Evidence with German Data

Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...

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Dionne, Georges; Dostie, Benoit - Institut d'Économie Appliquée, HEC Montréal (École … - 2008

; Count Data Model, Correlated Random E�ects. The authors would like to thank Lene Kromann for excellent research assistance … analysis using microdata. Economic Journal 101(405), 214�229. 19 Delgado, M. A. and T. J. Kiesner (1997). Count data models … Poisson models. Econometrica 52(3), 701�720. Hausman, J., B. Hall, and Z. Griliches (1984). Econometric models for count data …

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Monitoring Processes with Changing Variances

Ord, J. Keith; Hyndman, Rob J.; Koehler, Anne B.; … - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2008

Statistical process control (SPC) has evolved beyond its classical applications in manufacturing to monitoring economic and social phenomena. This extension requires consideration of autocorrelated and possibly non-stationary time series. Less attention has been paid to the possibility that the...

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Labor Mobility and Patenting Activity

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), Økonomisk … - 2008

We measure the quantitative importance of labor mobility as a vehicle for the transmission of knowledge and skills across firms. For this purpose we create a unique data set that matches all applications of Danish firms at the European Patent Office to linked employer-employee register data for...

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Poisson Autoregression

Fokianos, Konstantinos; Rahbek, Anders; Tjøstheim, Dag - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2008

-canonical link function, count data, Poisson regression, likeli- hood, geometric ergodicity, integer GARCH, `-irreducibility … generalized linear models for count time series, and they provide a flexible framework for studying dependent count data. For …

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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? – Empirical Evidence with German Data

Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008

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Dionne, Georges; Dostie, Benoit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

, unobserved heterogeneity, count data model, correlated random effects Corresponding author: Benoit Dostie Institute of … analysis using microdata. Economic Journal 101(405), 214�229. 19 Delgado, M. A. and T. J. Kiesner (1997). Count data models … Poisson models. Econometrica 52(3), 701�720. Hausman, J., B. Hall, and Z. Griliches (1984). Econometric models for count data …

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The Determinants of Suppliers’ Performance in E-Procurement: Evidence from the Italian Government’s E-Procurement Platform

Albano, Gian Luigi; Dini, Federico; Zampino, Roberto; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Participation of small businesses in the market for public contracts is widely recognized as a key policy issue. It is also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end, we analyze the transactions completed in the period...

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Multi-destination and multi-purpose trip effects in the analysis of the demand for trips to a remote recreational site

Martinez-Espineira, Roberto; Amoako-Tuffour, Joe - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2008

One of the basic assumptions of the travel cost method for recreational demand analysis is that the travel cost is always incurred for a single purpose recreational trip. Several studies have skirted around the issue with simplifying assumptions and dropping observations considered as...

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