INTRODUCTION In recent years, major changes in health care policy have affected oncology practice dramatically. In this context, we examined the effect of practice structure on volume and payments for radiation oncology services using the 2013 Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (POSPUF) for New York State radiation oncologists. METHODS...

BACKGROUND Cancer survivors are particularly prone to the effects of a fragmented health care delivery system. The implications of fragmented cancer care across providers likely include greater spending and worse quality of care. For this reason, the authors measured relations between increasing fragmentation of cancer care, expenditures, and quality of care among prostate cancer survivors. M...

Bankalar mali aracılık yapan önemli kurumlardır. Türkiye finansal sisteminde en büyük pay bankalara aittir. Dolayısıyla bankacılık sektörünün Türkiye’nin ekonomik yapısının şekillendirdiği söylenebilir. Mali aracı bankaların kredilendirme faaliyetleri yüzünden katlandıkları risklerden biri de kredi riski olup riskini arttıran unsurlardan “coğrafi yoğunlaşma”dır. “coğrafik yoğunlaşmaları” risk v...

Granular residual is created in the banking network when there are a few large banks with many small banks. In this case, the effect of the shocks on each bank not lost in total that can lead to macro-economic consequences. The transmission of monetary policy through change in bank facilities is one of the key mechanisms affecting monetary policies. The power of transmission of monetary policy ...

The paper studies the impact of bank specific, industry specific and macroeconomic factors affecting profitability of Indian Banks in a dynamic model framework. The persistence of bank profits and endogeneity of the factors have been accounted for using Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) as suggested in Arellano & Bond, 1991.The panel data for the study have been obtained from 42 Indian Schedu...

Agricultural industries are the foundation of modernization agricultural and rural areas in China. National Modern Industrial Parks (NMAIPs) provides a considerable nationwide platform for industries. We take 200 NMAIPs China as objects. Through spatial analysis, Herfindahl–Hirschman index, SBM-DEA model, we analyzed development characteristics regional differences from muti-level perspective n...

In the recent years, resource depletion of inshore and coastal fisheries has seriously impacted Taiwan. Local fishing communities’ economic profits in these fisheries have declined and resulted in lower earned incomes for the fishermen. These phenomena have lead many scholars, government agencies and fishing communities to evaluate the optimal number of operating vessels in these fisheries. Thi...

Este artigo apresenta uma análise da composição das carteiras teóricas de ações que compõe o Índice Sustentabilidade Empresarial (ISE), gerido pela B3 (bolsa valores São Paulo), em seus 15 anos. Mensura a concentração na carteira teórica no período para setores, subsetores, segmentos e empresas, assim como analisa estas composições mais profundamente. Na mensuração foi utilizado índice Herfinda...