Taxes on housing consumption have attractive features. They can enhance overall efficiency, function as automatic …

Taxes on housing consumption have attractive features. They can enhance overall efficiency, function as automatic …

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to … accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity … of individual health problems and the social integration of individuals influencing the acceptance of EHR. The more the …

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to … accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity … of individual health problems and the social integration of individuals influencing the acceptance of EHR. The more the …

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

Many international institutions, including the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), have recommended … that countries adopt universal health care coverage, believing that adequate health care is a basic human right. Thailand … with implementing universal health coverage. One of the primary problems is the financial stress of public hospitals due to …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …

evolution of technical efficiency in the Italian health care sector. The final results provide new empirical evidence in support … of regional political institutions and the 1998 tax reform (introduction of IRAP) on the efficiency of Italian regional … governments. Both methodologies are applied to a longitudinal dataset, including financial and health care data disaggregated at …

In this case designed for use in a business school, medical center, or health policy program, Kingstar Winning …