We develop a stylized model that allows us to estimate a value-added measure for nursing homes ("SNFs") which accounts for patient selection both into and out of a SNF. We use the model, together with detailed data on the physical and mental health of about 6 million Medicare SNF patients...

Quality regulation attempts to ensure quality and foster competition by reducing vertical differentiation, but it may also have adverse effects on market structure. We study this trade-off in the context of pharmaceutical bioequivalence, which is the primary quality standard for generic drugs....

Solar technologies have been associated with private and social returns, but their technological potential often remains unachieved because of persistently low demand for high-quality products. In a randomized field experiment in Senegal, we assess the potential of three types of quality...

Physicians commonly receive marketing-related transfers from drug firms. We examine the impact of these relationships on the prescribing of physician-administered cancer drugs in Medicare. We find that prescribing of the associated drug increases 4\% in the twelve months after a payment is...

The analysis of the indicators that measure the economic and financial results is a very complex issue involving a number of theoretical and methodological aspects arising from the financial and economic activity of a company. The analysis of the indicator’s system specific to the business...

Today stress is psychological and not another time, mentally. This is especially multiforme and its mark where we least expect or not expect at all. Strain, race against time, pressure, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. No we have no idea of many stressors we have every day.. What happens...

Resource concept seems relatively banal, the economy using the general meaning: support element to meet the needs. Resources represent the inputs to the activity of any company and refer to: properties, employees, streams of information, knowledge, cultural values, organizational capabilities,...

Studies support the idea of differences between men and women managers regarding leadership style, are quite hard to find because almost all research in this direction have been made in terms of groups of male managers. If there was evidence in the sense similarity between the leadership style...

The complexity of economic and financial operations of a company has as consequences positive or negative results, which are reflected in the financial statements. One of these statements that play an important role in the analysis of the company’s performance is the profit and loss account....

Clearly the world is developing in new directions, social, political, and environmental. Now is the time, more than ever, for those decision makers who control training budgets to adopt a framework of practices, behaviors, attitudes and values that address every aspect of an organization's...