International Center for Orthopaedic Education (ICOE)

International Patients on Operation Vacation – Perspectives of Patients Travelling to Hungary for Orthopaedic Treatments

Background The importance of cross-border healthcare, medical and health tourism plays a significant role in the European health policy and health management. After dentistry, orthopaedic treatments are the leading motivation for seeking care in Hungary, as patients with rheumatic and motion diseases are drawn to the thermal spas and well-established orthopaedic centres. This paper aims to gain...

Stanford Center for International Development

Contrary to the predictions of standard economic theory, capital market liberalization has been a mixed blessing for many countries. Liberalization of debt inflows exposes economies to the risk of crises stemming from sudden changes in investor sentiment. Equity market liberalizations, on the other hand, have promoted growth in almost every liberalizing country. Yet equity market liberalization...

International Center for Theoritical Physics

We reconsider quantum mechanical systems based on the classical action being the period of a one form over a cycle and elucidate three main points.First we show that the prepotenial V is no longer completely arbitrary but obeys a consistency integral equation.That is the one form dV defines the same period as the classical action.We then apply this to the case of the punctured plane for which t...

International Center for Economic Growth

Stanford Center for International Development

At a time when the worst global financial crisis since the 1929 Great Depression threatens the very survival of many global financial giants, the relatively better financial performance of Chinese banks stands out. This is commendable considering that these banks were “technically insolvent” not too long ago. This paper reviews China’s banking reform strategy and its implementation and analyzes...