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 …

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 paper we construct life-cycle profiles of U.S. health care spending using data from the Medical Expenditure … Panel Survey (MEPS). We separate pure age effects on health expenditure from time effects (i.e. productivity effects … trend. Time and cohort effects introduce a significant estimation bias into predictions of health expenditures per age group …

health spending simultaneously controlling for time effects (i.e. institutional changes and business cycles effects) and … estimation bias into predictions of health expenditures per age group, especially for individuals older than 60 years. The …