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Managed Care and the Adoption of Hospital Technology: The Case of Cardiac Catheterization

Bokhari, Farasat A.S. - EconWPA - 2001

The diffusion of health care technology is influenced by both the total market share of managed care organizations as … hospitals in the U.S. between 1985 and 1995. Results show that a hospital is less likely to adopt the technology if HMO market … already adopted, the probability of adoption decreases with the number of HMOs. Thus, in markets where technology is rare, HMO …

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Understanding Patents: The Role of R&D Funding Sources and the Patent Office

Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the effects of different sources of R&D funding and patent office attributes on the patenting process. Another important contribution is modeling the effect of a random delay in the ‘pendency’ time as a stochastic process and quantifying its effect on patenting. The...

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Generalized Knowledge Index: The Production, and Imputed Gross Future and Present Values of Doctoral Dissertations across Some African Countries

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S. - EconWPA - 2004

The notion that lack of knowledge undermines the economic performance of African countries is deeply and widely held to be true. Yet evidence for the basis of that truth is few and far in-between. This paper first describes a production function approach to the creation of knowledge of African...

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Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the=20 Classical Gold Standard Era

J. Ernesto L=F3pez-C=F3rdova; = =20 Chris Meissner - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper we show that the spread of the classical gold=20 standard in the late nineteenth century increased international trade=20 flows. This positive effect was compounded whenever a group of countries=20 formed a monetary union. Applying the gravity model of trade to more than=20 1,100...

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If only I could sack you! Management turnover and performance in large German Banks between 1874 and 1913

Bayer, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - EconWPA - 2005

We analyze the relation of firm performance and managerial turnover in 19th century German banking by probit estimation. This period covers a major reform of corporate governance. Before the reform performance and turnover are unrelated, wheras after the reform more succesfull managers leave...

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Paper Money but a Gold Debt. Italy in the Gold Standard

Tattara, Giuseppe; or consequences) - EconWPA - 2002

During the 52 years between the Unification of the Kingdom of Italy and World War 1, the lira was legally convertible into metal for a limited period of time. Although not formally committed to gold, the lira exchange towards the gold standard countries proved remarkably stable,...

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Microcredit in Pre-Famine Ireland

Hollis, Aidan; Sweetman, Arthur - EconWPA - 1997

Hundreds of independent, local, quasi-charitable microcredit societies, or "loan funds," were lending to as many as 20% of Irish households in the mid-nineteenth century. Monitored by a central regulatory authority, funds in the system were successful in mitigating informational, moral hazard...

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"Excess Volatility" and the German Stock Market, 1870-1990

Long, J. Bradford De; Becht, Marco - EconWPA - 1995

This paper uses long-run real price and dividends series to investigate for the German stock market the questions asked of the U.S. market by Shiller (1989). It tries to determine in what periods and to what degree the Germanstock market has also possessed "excess volatility" over the past...

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How the gold standard functioned in Portugal: an analysis of some macroeconomic aspects

Duarte, António Portugal; Andrade, João Sousa - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies the Gold Standard in Portugal. It was the first country in Europe to join Great Britain in 1854. The principle of free gold convertibility was abandoned in 1891. For the purposes of a macroeconomic study, we also extended the analysis up to 1913. Our study points out the...

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A Corporate Governance Reform as a Natural Experiment for Incentive Contracts

Bayer, Christian; Burhop, Carsten - EconWPA - 2004

The present paper proposes to employ a major shift in the legal and institutional environment to identify contractual incentives from the correlation of executive pay and firm performance. We use the reform of the German stock companies act in 1884 as such a major shift and estimate the...

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