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A new look at hospital cost function estimation

Velagapudi, Kalyani R Mandadi - 1995

The production of hospital care can be viewed as a two-tiered production process. At the first tier, intermediate services are produced which are used in the production of final services, which comprise the second tier of production. Intermediate services are not always produced internally. Some...

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Effects of personal costs of methadone maintenance, especially time price, on treatment attendance

Borisova, Natalia N - 2000

The study provides conclusive evidence on existence of economic barriers, namely money price and time price, to regular treatment attendance for methadone maintenance clients. The study is designed to develop improved time price measures and investigate their effect on treatment attendance....

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Lessons from the Business Sector for Successful Knowledge Management in Health Care: A Systematic Review

Kothari, Anita; Hovanec, Nina; Hastie, Robyn; Sibbald, … - 2011

BACKGROUND: The concept of knowledge management has been prevalent in the business sector for decades. Only recently has knowledge management been receiving attention by the health care sector, in part due to the ever growing amount of information that health care practitioners must handle. It...

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The economic organization of winemaking: French cooperatives and California corporations in historical context

Knox, Trevor McTaggart - 2000

Winemaking firms in California and southern France are organized quite differently. In this dissertation, I describe and analyze the economic changes and the structure of capabilities that make vinification cooperatives appropriate in southern France but not in California. I apply recent...

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Economics of emerging retail formats: Wal-Mart, wages and service competition

Bonanno, Alessandro - 2007

on average 2.75% lower than the competitive benchmark, generating $1.27 billion in total welfare losses to retail workers …

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Economic and empirical analysis of consumer purchase intentions in electronic and traditional retail channels, Internet retailer pricing strategies, and price dispersion on the Internet

Su, Bo-chiuan - 2002

This dissertation, consisting of four independent but complementary research papers, examines buying behavior of consumers in retail channels, efficiency characteristics of the Internet market, and pricing strategies of Internet retailers. This investigation involves both theoretical and...

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Coordination in maintenance outsourcing

Tarakci, Hakan - 2004

In the first part of this thesis, we consider a manufacturer who has a process with an increasing failure rate over time. In order to improve the performance of the process, the following two types of maintenance activities are outsourced to an external contractor: (a) Preventive maintenance...

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Economic integration and market structure: An empirical analysis of the Morocco-European Union Free Trade Area

Elbehri, Aziz - 1999

elimination against EU imports, there are concerns about the substantial negative fiscal implications while the welfare and …-level data for modeling market structure. The short run analysis showed that the FTA results in significant welfare gains with a … contraction for import-substitution sectors. There is a positive interaction between welfare gains from scale economies and …

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Improving the accuracy of hotel reservations forecasting: Curves similarity and parameters processes approach

Schwartz, Zvi - 1995

This study examines the accuracy of various time series models in forecasting daily levels of occupancy. A reservation data set of 3 hotels that include over 3450 booking curves is used to test the performance of five models in forecasting occupancy levels up to 99 days in advance. Three...

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Essays in industrial organization

Roy, Suddhasatwa - 1996

The first essay examines the phenomenon of free riding and underinvestment in noncooperative entry deterrence in the Gilbert and Vives (1986) model with differentiated products. Our analysis proves that when both entry allowing and entry deterring equilibria coexist, underinvestment can occur in...

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