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Versorgung von HIV-Patienten in Deutschland: Herausforderungen der Zukunft

Claes, Christa; Mittendorf, Thomas; Stoll, Matthias - 2009

Als Folge der jüngsten gesundheitspolitischen Reformen in Deutschland scheint ein Wandel in der HIV-Versorgungsstruktur unumgänglich. Vor diesem Hintergrund widmeten sich im November 2008 unterschiedliche Interessenvertreter in einem Workshop der Identifikation und Diskussion zukünftiger...

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Bonus payments and fund managers' behavior: Trans-Atlantic evidence

Gehrig, Thomas P.; Lütje, Torben; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2008

This questionnaire survey of fund managers in the United States, Germany and Switzerland documents a distinctly positive influence of bonus payments on investment behavior on both sides of the Atlantic. Higher bonus payments are significantly related to higher working effort but not to risk...

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Investor sentiment in the US-dollar: longer-term, nonlinear orientation on PPP

Menkhoff, Lukas; Rebitzky, Rafael R. - 2007

How is it possible that exchange rates move in the long run towards fundamentals, while professionals form consistently irrational exchange rate expectations? We look at this puzzle from a different perspective by analyzing investor sentiment in the US-dollar market. First, long-horizon...

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Factors explaining crop price developments: Time-series evidence for developing and developed countries

Raabe, Katharina - 2010

The global hunger indices of 2008 and 2009 (Grebmer et al. 2008, 2009) point to persistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity and a worsening of the situation due to rising crop prices. At the same time, there is a lack of empirical knowledge on the demand- and supply-side determinants...

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An oversimplified inquiry into the sources of exchange rate variability

Kempa, Bernd - 2003

Exchange rates as well as relative price level and output movements are decomposed into components associated with nominal shocks as well as shocks to aggregate supply and aggregate demand. In contrast to previous analyses of such decompositions based on statistical vector autoregression (VAR)...

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The empirical relation between credit quality, recovery and correlation

Rösch, Daniel; Scheule, Harald - 2009

Credit risk is an important issue in many finance areas, such as the determination of cost of capital, the valuation of corporate bonds and pricing of credit derivatives. Credit risk has also been a cause and consequence of the current financial crisis. Thus, methods for measuring credit risk,...

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Vergütungsfindung auf dem stationären Pflegemarkt in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Bestandaufnahme und Alternativen

Wasem, Jürgen; Rothgang, Heinz; Greß, Stefan - 2005

Im Januar 2002 hat der Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen die Enquetekommission "Situation und Zukunft der Pflege in NRW" eingerichtet. Die Kommission hatte den Auftrag, Antworten auf die Frage zu finden, welche Rahmenbedingungen das Land schaffen kann und welche Impulse es geben muss, um die Qualität...

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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? A comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014

The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an optimal currency area. It is of particular interest currently in the context of high and rising levels of labour market disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there...

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Competition in Social Health Insurance: A Three-Country Comparison

Greß, Stefan - 2004

consumer satisfaction in the provision of health care services. This paper sums up incentives and instruments of competition … fulfill these objectives. Incentives for risk selection of sickness funds are high in Germany and Switzerland while they are … low in the Netherlands. Incentives for consumer choice are also highest in Germany and Switzerland. In all three countries …

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Kopfprämienmodelle in der GKV - Lohnt sich ein Systemwechsel? Aktualisierte und erweiterte Expertise für die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

Rothgang, Heinz; Wasem, Jürgen; Greß, Stefan - 2005

Zentrale Aufgabe dieses Beitrags ist es, die mit der Umstellung der GKV-Finanzierung auf Kopfprämien verbundenen Vorteile zu bewerten. Ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit erheben zu wollen, haben die Autoren dieser Expertise dazu insgesamt zwölf Modelle identifiziert, die bis Mitte November...

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