RUHR ECONOMIC PAPERS Does Money Burn Fat ? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Does Money Burn Fat? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Does Money Burn Fat? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment We test whether financial incentives have an effect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese persons assigned to three experimental groups. While two treatment groups obtain €150 and €300, respectively, for achieving an individually assigned target weight within four months, a control group receives no su...

RUHR ECONOMIC PAPERS Physician Performance Pay : Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment # 658

Ruhr Economic Papers #132 Ruhr Economic Papers #132 Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? – Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor outputs of the production process. We conduct a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) on a multifaceted administrative German dataset combined with the balanc...

Ruhr Economic Papers #77 Ruhr Economic Papers

In this paper we examine the link between stock market uncertainty and monetary policy in the US. There are strong arguments why central banks should account for stock market uncertainty in their strategy. Amongst others, they can maintain the functioning of financial markets and moderate possible economic downswings. To describe the behavior of the Federal Reserve Bank, augmented forward-looki...

Ruhr Economic Papers #6 Ruhr Economic Papers

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