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Financial Protection Against Medical Expense

O'Donnell, Owen - 2019

Financial protection is claimed to be an important objective of health policy. Yet there is a lack of clarity about what it is and no consensus on how to measure it. I address the ambiguity of meaning by considering three questions: Protection of what? Protection against what? Protection with...

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Unravelling Hidden Inequities in a Universal Public Long-Term Care System

García Gómez, Pilar - 2019

We investigate whether publicly subsidized long-term care (LTC) is allocated according to needs, independently from income, using administrative data from all applicants for public LTC in Catalonia, from 2011 to 2014. We measure the level of horizontal inequity in subsidies to compensate...

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Do Negative Interest Rates Make Banks Less Safe?

Nucera, Federico - 2017

We study the impact of increasingly negative central bank policy rates on banks' propensity to become undercapitalized in a financial crisis ('SRisk'). We find that the risk impact of negative rates depends on banks' business models: Large banks with diversified income streams are perceived as...

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Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance

Muller, Paul - 2017

We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp drop in the availability of these programs. Using administrative data...

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Games with a Permission Structure : A Survey on Generalizations and Applications

van den Brink, Rene - 2017

In the field of cooperative games with restricted cooperation, various restrictions on coalition formation are studied. The most studied restrictions are those that arise from restricted communication and hierarchies. This survey discusses several models of hierarchy restrictions and their...

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