Prevention has been a main issue of recent policy orientations in health care. This renews the interest on how different organizational designs and the definition of payment schemes to providers may affect the incentives to provide preventive health care. We focus on the externality resulting from referral decisions from primary to acute care providers. This makes our analysis complementary to ...

Pressure on health care systems due to the increasing expenditures of the elderly population is pushing policy makers to adopt new regulation and payment schemes for nursing home services. We consider the behavior of nonprofit nursing homes under different payment schemes and empirically investigate the implications of prospective payments on nursing home costs under tightly regulated quality a...

Monetary economists have long recognized a tension between the bene…ts of fractional reserve banking, such as the ability to undertake more pro…table (long-term) investment opportunities, and the di¢ culties associated with fractional reserve banking, such as the risk of insolvency for each bank. The goal of this paper is to show that a speci…c form of private bank coalition (a joint-liability ...

The lowering of the groundwater table causes the area above the water table to become unsaturated and capillary phenomena to appear in this zone. This means that the bearing capacity of shallow footings will be influenced by capillary stress or matric suction. In this research, the effect of groundwater table lowering on the bearing capacity of a shallow square model footing on dense sand has b...

abstract following the advances in mobile communication and information technology, smart phones have been used in a wide variety of commercial, social, entertainment, file sharing and health transactions and applications. the current procedures in healthcare environment for patient registration, appointment scheduling and payment are time consuming and somehow tiresome. traditionally, patients...

The main incentive for the use of electronic commerce (E-commerce) and spread on a large scale is that most of business activities need payment system. As E-commerce requires an efficient payment system which is stable and secure for supporting electronically commerce. This paper proposed to enforce SET, SSL protocols for encrypting e-payment information. It also presented several methods to ta...

This study contributes to the literature on supply chain coordination by coordinating the research and development (R&D) effort, retail price, and inventory decisions. It investigates a real case in the home appliance industry. The main purpose of this study is to examine the optimal values of R&D effort, pricing, and inventory decisions under decentralized and centralized structures. Then, a d...