Significant attention has been devoted to developing intersectoral strategies to reduce health inequities; however, these strategies have largely neglected to consider how equity in health ought to be weighted and balanced with the pursuit of equity for other social goods (eg, education equity). Research in this domain is crucial, as the health sector’s pursuit of health equity may be at odds w...

shows that an equity-focused approach to child survival and development is the most practical and cost-effective way of meeting the health Millennium Development Goals for children.

The issues surrounding transportation equity, both external and internal to transportation, are explored. Several examples are provided of transportation improvements that impose transportation costs on more individuals than those who are benefited. Beyond counting the number of winners and losers, several quantitative measures of equity are suggested and applied to a test case: ramp meters in ...

In an asset-pricing model calibrated to match the standard asset pricing empirical properties –in particular, the time-variation in the equity premium – we calculate the welfare (value) implications of sub-optimal capital budgeting decisions. Specifically, we calculate that an investment policy that ignores the timevariation in the equity premium, such as would occur with a cost of capital foll...

OBJECTIVES To assess the clinical and the economic impacts of intraprocedural use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in patients undergoing percutaneous radiofrequency ablation for small (<2.5 cm) hepatocellular carcinomas. METHODS One hundred and forty-eight hepatocellular carcinomas in 93 patients were treated by percutaneous radiofrequency ablation and immediate assessment by intraproc...

Compared with Eq. (32), equity value is reduced by the expected deadweight loss from diversion, (1−qT )(1−λ)XB 1+r . Effectively, shareholders bear the full cost of diversion by paying a high interest rate on debt. It follows that the optimal debt in this range is D∗. It follows that the target chooses between taking high debt D∗ and diverting value from creditors in the bad state and taking lo...