1 ©Meir Kohn 2014 9. FINANCING COMMERCE, PRODUCTION, AND GOVERNMENT All economic activity requires investment. We have seen that this is true in commerce and production, and we will see that it is no less true in predation and government. The necessary investment must be financed either by those undertaking the activity or by others. We will begin by examining the need for financing of the diff...

The key role of transport infrastructure in the emerging European network has provoked many questions as to the financing of new infrastructure. In the course of the twentieth century govemments in all countries have assumed responsibility for financing transport infrastructure. In the past decade, however, serious doubts have been expressed on the efficiency of a strong public financial involv...

The present study aims to provide a model for financing buyer-supplier in Mehrvarzan healthcare Company. The statistical population of the study includes 300 employees of the company. According to Morgan table, 168 people are selected as the statistical sample. Available non-random sampling method has been used. For collecting the required information, the standard buyer-supplier financing ques...

Market popularity prediction has always been a hot research topic, such as sales and crowdfunding prediction. Most of these studies put the perspective on isolated markets, relying knowledge certain market to maximize performance. However, market-specific approaches are restricted by limitation markets incapable complicated potential relations among different especially some with strong depende...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Scientific knowledge commercialization University-industry collaborations University-industry links Technology transfer University-industry relationships Exchange between science and industry is a prerequisite for innovation and has attracted considerable interest to the role of relationships and interactions in the process of bringing ideas to the market and com...

Health care systems all over the world are experiencing some change as they look for a new balance between supply and demand. This article provides context for the U.S. health care financing debate by examining the health care systems of five other countries: Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, China and India. The authors show that, with few exceptions, countries around the world have seen ...

We measure how securitized assets, including mortgage-backed securities and other assetbacked securities, have shifted across financial institutions over this crisis and how the availability of financing has accommodated such shifts. Sectors dependent on repo financing – in particular, the hedge fund and broker-dealer sector – have reduced asset holdings, while the commercial banking sector, wh...

Introduction Most developed countries use case-mix systems (APRDRG-type) to define the prospective budgets of their hospitals. However, these case-mix systems are based mainly on the main diagnosis and procedures and do not take into account the specificity of geriatric patients. In the present study, we use all geriatric tools (RAI, RUGs, RIM, etc.) to evaluate the needs of acute geriatric hos...

a r t i c l e i n f o The study explores Israel's Silicon Valley style of entrepreneurial financing and venture capital (VC) management. Israel is known as the most successful Silicon Valley-style economy, similar to the US Silicon Valley. The high-tech economy of Israel presents an interesting case of effective institutional setting and policies that transform the country into the innovation n...

Activity-based financing (ABF) was implemented in the Norwegian hospital sector from 1 July 1997. A fraction of the block grant from the state to the county councils has been replaced by a matching grant depending upon the number and composition of hospital treatments. As a result of the reform, the majority of county councils have introduced activity-based contracts with their hospitals. This ...