The renewed interest in home dialysis therapies makes it pertinent to address the essentials of establishing and running a successful home dialysis program. The success of a home program depends on a clear understanding of the structure of the home program team, the physical plant, educational tool requirements, reimbursement sources and a business plan. A good command of the technical and econ...

Economists devote considerable effort to grad­ u­ate stu­dent edu­cation bu­t have condu­cted rela­ tively little research on the determinants of stu­dent performance or placement in the job market. Do gradu­ate stu­dents who do well in core microeco­ nomics (micro) cou­rses also do well in core mac­ roeconomics (macro) and econometrics (metrics) cou­rses? Are stu­dents who achieve higher grade...

Identifying authorship correctly and efficiently is a difficult problem when the literature is abundant, but poorly recorded. Homonyms are tedious to differentiate. This paper describes how the field of economics has organized itself with respect to author identification. We describe the RePEc project with a special emphasis on the RePEc Author Service. We then discuss how the concept is curren...

Joseph Antos is the Wilson Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He is a Commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. Previously, Antos held senior positions at the Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President’s Council of...

The paper studies the problems of non-profit organisations and their provision social services in processes sustainable development economic security rural areas. methodological basis research includes theoretical positions regional typology, development, spatial economics, as well approaches to study effectiveness organisations. functioning organisations, demand for services, is revealed by us...

This paper examines critically the contributions of Cournot, Jevons and Walras as the founders of classical mathematical economics from a methodological standpoint. Advances in different economic schools and doctrines in the 19th century produced an environment of multi-dimensionality in economic analysis which was regarded by the pioneers of classical mathematical economists as a chaotic state...

Earlier versions of the material here were presented at the Society for Computational Economics (Aix-en-Provence, June 2002, and Seattle, July 2003), the NSF-NBER Time Series Meeting (Philadelphia, September 2002), the Workshop on Forecasting Techniques of the European Central Bank (Frankfurt, December 2002), and the Econometric Society (Evanston, June 2003). The paper represents the authors' v...

This paper compares the NBS and market outcomes in a simple n-person economy. It shows how the two outcomes differ with respect to responsiveness to differences in risk aversion, endowments, and market positions. JEL Classification: C78 *This research was supported by grants from the UCSC Division of Social Sciences and Academic Senate Committee on Research. I am grateful to Dan Friedman for he...

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