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One of the most important recent contributions to the field of comparative political economy is Mancur Olson's <italic>The Rise and Decline of Nations</italic>. In that work, Olson deduces, from his logic of collective action, a series of implications regarding the impact of social organizations—in particular,...
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This paper presents the results of a revealed-choice experiment testing the theoretical predictions of political economy models regarding public support for a publicly provided private good financed with proportional income taxes when individuals can purchase the good privately and either...
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We present the results of a randomized experiment to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of response incentives for a stated-preference survey of a general community population. The survey was administered using a mixed-mode approach, in which community members were invited to...
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When compared against capecitabine alone, the addition of lapatinib has a cost-effectiveness ratio exceeding the threshold normally used by NICE. Compared with T + C, L + C is dominant in the base case and approximately equally likely to be cost-effective in probabilistic sensitivity...
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" The imminent enlargement of the EU to as many as twenty-seven member states in the near future will pose severe budgetary, administrative, and operational challenges for the current member states. However, the challenges of enlargement, as great as they are, pale in comparison with the...
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Greater recognition by economists of the influential role that concern for distributional equity exerts on decision making in a variety of economic contexts has spurred interest in empirical research on the public judgments of fair distribution. Using a stated-preference experimental design,...
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Greater recognition by economists of the influential role that concern for distributional equity exerts on decision making in a variety of economic contexts has spurred interest in empirical research on the public judgments of fair distribution. Using a stated-preference experimental design,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549424
Debate over the effects of public versus private health care finance persists in both academic and policy circles. This paper presents the results of a revealed preference laboratory experiment that tests how characteristics of the public health system affect a subject's willingness-to-pay (WTP)...
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