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(John Wiley & Sons, 2000)Background: Publicly funded mental health systems are increasingly implementing managed care systems, such as capitation, to control costs. Capitated contracts may increase the risk for disenrollment or adverse outcomes ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-09-17)This paper examines how attitudes to risk relate to other psychological constructs of personality and consideration of future consequences (a proxy for time preferences) and how risk attitudes relate to credit behaviour ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)The deregulation of electricity industries has generally separated the provision of generation from its subsequent transmission. However, the physical nature of electricity generation and delivery creates special problems ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2005)
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(Edward Elgar, 2005)
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(Blackwell, 2006)We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies ...
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(University of Melbourne. Department of Economics, 2002-04)We consider three broad types of employment contract vis, self-employment, PRP, and fixed wage employment. We focus on the implied degree of income risk associated with each type of employment contract, arguing that such ...
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(Elsevier, 2010-07)In this article, Ritz’s method is used to calculate with unprecedented accuracy the displacements related to a deformable rectangular plate resting on the surface of an elastic quarter-space. To achieve this required three ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-03)This paper presents and discusses new estimates of the manufacturing and public capital components of the Irish gross capital stock for the ten-year period 1985-1994. The new data are used to estimate aggregate production ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-09-25)I review previous approaches to modelling oligopoly in general equilibrium, and propose a new view which in principle overcomes their deficiencies: modelling firms as large in their own market but small in the economy ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-10)I review previous approaches to modelling oligopoly in general equilibrium, and propose a new view which in principle overcomes their deficiencies: modelling firms as large in their own market but small in the economy as ...
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(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 ...
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(Manchester University Press, 1997)
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(Alexandrine Press, 1996)Social air services continue to be provided by governments in liberalized air transport markets for reasons of regional economic development and social or political integration. Here the service policies for the US, EU and ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-07)People often feel unhappy in the morning but better later in the day, and this pattern may be amplified in the distressed. Past work suggests that one function of cortisol is to energize people in the mornings. In a study ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-04)This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the location of firms, innovation and environmental policy. Besides the standard effect of reducing trade and ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-11)This paper examines the role of employer provided health insurance in the retirement decisions of dual working couples. The near elderly have high-expected medical expenditures; therefore, availability of health insurance ...
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(School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University, 2007-04)Because the near-elderly have high expected medical expenditures, availability of health insurance is an important factor in their retirement decisions. Using Health and Retirement Study data collected in 1992-2002, the ...
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(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 ...
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(Blackwell Publishing on behalf of Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1991-05)The impact of internal and external variables on firm-level wages is examined using data for 436 UK firms over the period 1976-1986. The evidence indicates that both matter, as firm-level profit per employee and industrial ...
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