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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D

Ketcham, Jonathan D.; Lucarelli, Claudio; Miravete, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offred by numerous private insurers. We examine non-poor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 using panel data. Our sample reduced overspending by $298 on average, with gains by 81% of them. The greatest improvements were...

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Waiting Lists and Patient Selection

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We develop a model of waiting lists for public hospitals when physicians deliver both private and public treatment … treatment has no waiting time but entails payment of a fee. Both physicians and patients take into account that each patient … treated in the private practice schedule reduces the waiting list for public treatment. We show that physicians do not …

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Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

Acemoglu, Daron; Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Health expenditures as a share of GDP have more than tripled over the last half century. A common conjecture is that this is primarily a consequence of rising real per capita income, which more than doubled over the same period. We investigate this hypothesis empirically by instrumenting for...

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Workers, Machines and Economic Growth

Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper models technology adoption as replacing workers by machines, which perform the same job in the production process. The paper shows that such modelling of technology adoption affects significantly the analysis of economic growth. This model can explain large and persistent...

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Dynamic Aid Allocation

Carter, Paddy; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper introduces a framework for studying the optimal dynamic allocation of foreign aid among multiple recipients. We pose the problem as one of weighted global welfare maximization. A donor in the North chooses an optimal path for international transfers, anticipating that consumption and...

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Convergence in Growth Rates: The Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation

Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

We consider the role of capital mobility and international taxation in explaining the observed diversity in long-term income growth rates. Under perfect capital mobility, international differences in taxes will not matter for total growth differentials. Policy differences have a role to play in...

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Convergence in Growth Rates: A Quantitative Assessment of the Role of Capital Mobility and International Taxation

Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

We provide an exploratory quantitive analysis of the role of capital mobility and international taxation in explaining the observed cross-country diversity in the long-run rates of growth of per capita and total incomes as well as the population growth rates. Corroborative evidence is found for...

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Global View of Economic Growth

Ventura, Jaume - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical models that share a common description of technology and preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade...

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