Should Poland Join the Eurozone?

Professional Organizations: Who Should Join?

113 Medical expenditures are rising faster than any other sector of the economy (Feldstein, 2001). More dollars are being spent on health care than ever before, yet health care providers are realizing lower profits. The explosion of medical spending in the 1960s led to constraint in the 1970s. As a result, clinicians, who are facing cutbacks in demand for and reimbursement of their services, ar...

Restructuring the Eurozone

This paper suggests that there should be a realignment of the current Eurozone. There has been research to argue that the Eurozone does not fit the Optimum Currency Area (OCA) criteria. This might be a contributing factor to the current economic crisis in Europe. I propose, based on results from k-means data clustering, that the Eurozone be divided into three separate regions under the European...

SNOMED CT – should Sweden join now or wait ?

The National Board of Health and Welfare categorises its publications according to document type. This is a Status Report. This means that it contains a report and an analysis of surveys and other means of following up legislation, activities, resources and so on which municipal authorities , county councils and individual principals utilise and pursue within the health service, social services...

Examining Eurozone Divergence

Should we be surprised by the unreliability of real-time output gap estimates? Density estimates for the Eurozone

Output gap estimates calculated in real-time are known to be often unreliable. Recent work has found that, without the benefit of hindsight, it can prove difficult for policy-makers to pin down accurately the current position of the output gap. However, attention primarily has focussed on output gap point estimates alone. This paper considers output gap estimates and their uncertainty more gene...