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The determinants of health care expenditure : testing pooling restrictions in small samples

Herwartz, Helmut; Theilen, Bernd - 2000

Healthcare expenditure has increased substantially in all western industrialized countries in the last decades. The necessity to contain the increase in health care expenditure has motivated the Analysis of its determinants to explain differences across countries and health systems. However,...

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Indeterminacy in the small open economy Ramsey growth model

Weder, Mark - 1999

This paper constructs a small open economy version of the two sector Benhabib-Farmer (1996) indeterminacy model. It can be shown that sunspot equilibria arise at significantly lower magnitude of increasing returns to scale than in the original dosed economy model. Furthermore, if a mix of...

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Estimation and testing for varying coefficients in additive models with marginal integration

Yang, Lijian; Härdle, Wolfgang; Park, Byeong U. - 2002

regression model. Asymptotic distribution theory is developed for the estimation method which enjoys the same rate of convergence … as univariate function estimation. For the test statistic, asymptotic normal theory is established. These theoretical …

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Optimal consumption choice for ratchet investors

Riedel, Frank - 2001

The utility maximization problem of "ratchet investors" who do not tolerate any decline in their consumption rate is solved explicitly for all felicity functions in a Markovian framework which includes Brownian motion and Poisson processes as special cases. The optimal consumption plan turns out...

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Finance, investment, and firm value in Germany and the US : a comparative analysis

Nowak, Eric - 1998

in the two countries and in (ii) the interaction of investment and financing decisions. This paper investigates the … impact of financing, investment, and dividend decisions on the value of stock corporations in Germany and the US. The … investment creates value in excess of cost, but the US industrial sector seems to be more efficient in making value …

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Trust and reciprocity in the investment game with indirect reward

Güth, Werner; Königstein, Manfred; Marchand, Nadège; … - 2000

contracting is infeasible. One example is the study by Berg et al. (1995) of the investment game. In this game the person who … receives the investment is the one who may reward the investor. This is a direct reward game. Similar to Dufwenberg et al … investor may only be rewarded by a third person who did not receive his investment. Furthermore we investigate the influence of …

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