This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders.Further,we find that hospitals offering private insurees shorter waiting times as compared to SHI...

This paper uses Granger non–causality tests to analyze if channel competition exists between the companion websites of 93 German newspapers observed between I/1998 and II/2005. It provides econometric evidence for significant negative effects of companion website traffic on the print circulation of national newspapers and for significantly positive effects on local newspapers, at least for the ...

The authors address the issue of estimation and inference in dependent nonstationary panels of small cross-section dimensions. The main conclusion is that the best results are obtained applying bootstrap inference to single-equation estimators, such as fully modified ordinary least squares and dynamic ordinary least squares. Seemingly unrelated regression estimators perform badly, or are even u...

Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications ...

When firms collude and charge supracompetitive prices, consumers can bring antitrust lawsuits against the firms. litigation cost is low, accept as just another of doing business, whereas when high, lower price to deter litigation. Class action modeled a mechanism that allows plaintiffs attorneys obtain economies scale. We show class actions, firms’ incentive block them, may or not be socially d...

Firm-level, revenue-based productivity measures are ubiquitous in studies of firm dynamics and aggregate outcomes. One common measure is increasingly interpreted as reflecting “distortions” since distortions’ absence, equalization marginal revenue products should yield no dispersion this measure. Another but distinct the residual firm-level function, which reflects “fundamentals.” Using micro-l...

We use time series techniques to estimate the importance of four main explanations for decline US labor income share: rising firm markups, falling bargaining power workers, higher investment-specific technology growth, and more automated production processes. Identification is achieved with restrictions derived from a stylized model structural change. Our results point automation as driver shar...

هدف: هدف پژوهش بررسی ویژگی­‌های روانسنجی نسخه فارسی پرسشنامه تحقق انگیزه­‌های آشکار و پیش­بینی بهزیستی بر اساس انگیزه­های بود. روش کار: همبستگی جامعه آماری کلیه زنان مردان بالای 18 سال ایرانی در 1399 بودند. 595 نفر با نمونه­‌گیری دسترس به 99 سؤالی انگیزه‌­های 24 خرده مقیاس نیازهای اساسی گلاسر، سؤالات جمعیت ­شناختی پاسخ­دادند. یافته­‌ها: روایی صوری محتوایی توسط متخصصان روان­شناسی، تأیید شد. پایا...