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Publikováno v:
Public Finance Review. 49:41-70
The standard approach to evaluating a long-term project is to use the social rate of time preference to discount the benefits and costs of future generations. A difficulty with this approach is that there is no consensus on the values of the required
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Applied Economics Letters. 28:1264-1270
Motivated by the observed beef and livestock market impacts of coronavirus-caused meatpacking plant shutdowns, this paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects of closures among downs...
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Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 56:289-305
Contests by their very nature involve risk, winning and losing are both possible, and the gain from winning can itself be uncertain. The participants in a contest use resources to increase their chance of winning. The main focus of this analysis is o
Publikováno v:
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. 64:228-237
We constructed two theoretical models both of which predict that the federal fund surplus decreases, by an amount less than dollar-for-dollar, in response to an increase in the trust fund surplus. While this prediction is consistent with the empirica
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 120:94-103
We intend to explain the phenomena of voluntary disclosure of a discriminated against characteristic by a worker in the labor market (or a relationship seeker in the relationship market). We assume that there are two types of employers (or relationsh
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The Journal of Retirement. 3:50-66
Using a simple expected utility function, we derive discount-rate adjustments for uncertain future expenditures (costs) and revenues (benefits). We apply these results to the individual’s valuation of the Social Security contract, to aggregate meas
Publikováno v:
Economics Bulletin. 32(1):51-58
This paper models the midlife crisis as a decision on whether and when to realize a life dream, incorporating the key components of three psychology theories of midlife crises. It explains why a crisis (dream realization) tends to occur in the midlif
Publikováno v:
Medical Decision Making. 32:488-497
In addition to incurring direct treatment costs and generating direct health benefits that improve longevity and/or health-related quality of life, medical interventions often have further or “unrelated” financial and health impacts, raising the
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International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. 11:101-113
This paper analyzes the welfare gain from replacing the tax exclusion of employer-provided health insurance with a lump-sum tax credit. It differs from earlier studies in that we look at the welfare cost of health insurance tax exclusion as coming di
Autor:
Zijun Wang, Andrew J. Rettenmaier
Publikováno v:
Health Economics. 21:67-82
One of the perceived symptoms of US Medicare inefficiency is the existence of the dramatic variation in spending and utilization in different areas of the country. This study uses the Continuous Medicare History Sample, a large longitudinal 5% sample