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Empirical Analysis of Ambulance Travel Times: The Case of Calgary Emergency Medical Services

Budge, Susan; Ingolfsson, Armann; Zerom, Dawit - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 4, pp. 716-723

how the resulting travel-time distribution model can be used to create probability-of-coverage maps for diagnosis and …

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Gender perspectives of the financial and economic crisis

Ruggieri, Deborah - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 3, pp. 217-230

The crash of the financial markets 2008 has prompted numerous debates about the causes of the crisis and its impacts. However, the question of how the crisis is affecting men and women differently has tended to be marginalised. This paper proposes a framework for characterising and monitoring...

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A Political Economy Model of Health Insurance Policy

Kimakova, Alena - In: Atlantic Economic Journal 38 (2010) 1, pp. 23-36

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The Perceived Impact of the In-Trust Agreements on CGIAR Germplasm Availability: An Assessment of Bioversity International's Institutional Activities

Gotor, Elisabetta; Caracciolo, Francesco; Watts, Jamie - In: World Development 38 (2010) 10, pp. 1486-1493

Summary This study assesses the generation and consequences of the In-Trust Agreements (ITAs) that established the legal status of the CGIAR germplasm as freely available for the benefit of humanity under the auspices of FAO. The analysis looks at the history of the ITAs and focuses on the role...

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Generalized Gumbel distribution

Cooray, Kahadawala - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 37 (2010) 1, pp. 171-179

A generalization of the Gumbel distribution is presented to deal with general situations in modeling univariate data with broad range of skewness in the density function. This generalization is derived by considering a logarithmic transformation of an odd Weibull random variable. As a result,...

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On the tail index of a heavy tailed distribution

Qi, Yongcheng - In: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 62 (2010) 2, pp. 277-298

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Pension Systems in Latin America: Concepts and Measurements of Coverage

Rofman, Rafael; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Ourens, Guzmán - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010

Pension systems’ performance around the world can be usually assessed by considering three dimensions: coverage …, adequacy, and sustainability. This paper focuses on the coverage dimension, looking at empirical data in Latin America. It … similar indicators that make it possible to measure coverage in the various countries, both among active workers and among the …

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Geography and firm exports: new evidence on the nature of sunk costs

Lawless, Martina - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 146 (2010) 4, pp. 691-707

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<Emphasis Type="Bold">Race-Conscious Policy Analysis and the Healthcare Reform Debate

Myers, Samuel - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 37 (2010) 3, pp. 203-206

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Prescription drug coverage among elderly and disabled Americans: can Medicare—Part D reduce inequities in access?

Kanavos, Panos; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - In: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 10 (2010) 3, pp. 203-218

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