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Individual health insurance within the family : can subsidies promote family coverage?

Kapur, Kanika ; Marquis, M. Susan ; Escarce, José J. (Excellus Health Plan, 2007)

This paper examines the role of price in health insurance coverage decisions within the family to guide policy in promoting whole family coverage. We analyze the factors that affect individual health insurance coverage ...
Optimal factor and production subsidies under classical unemployment

Barry, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991-01)

This paper appraises and compares the macroeconomic effects of three supply-side policies - namely employment, investment and production subsidies - within the context of a multisectoral two-period model of a small open ...
The relationship between tax rates, grant rates and local costs in the location decisions of multinationals

Durkan, Joe (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996)
Robust rules for industrial policy in open economics

Leahy, Dermot ; Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-01-24)

The theory of strategic trade policy yields ambiguous recommendations for assistance to exporting firms in oligopolistic industries. However, some writers have suggested that investment subsidies are a more robust ...
The role of product design in consumers' choices in the individual insurance market

Kapur, Kanika ; Marquis, M. Susan ; Beeuwkes Buntin, Melinda ; Escarce, José J. (Blackwell, 2007-12)

Objective. To evaluate the role of health plan benefit design and price on consumers' decisions to purchase health insurance in the nongroup market and their choice of plan. Data Sources and Study Setting. Administrative ...
The silver lining of red tape

Davies, Ronald B. (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-05)

An increasing number of international agreements require “nondiscrimination” from their participants, i.e. the government of one country cannot treat foreign firms differently from domestic firms. This is at odds with a ...