Book Review on: African Development Bank Group, Enhancing Development in Africa – Public Private Partnerships, 2002, Valencia: Pressgroup Holdings Europe
Tobias Knedlik
African Development Perspectives Yearbook: Private and Public Sectors: Towards a Balance,
2004
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Auswirkungen der Privatisierung kommunaler Wohnungen auf Miete und Wohnqualität
Dominik Weiß
InfrastrukturRecht. Energie,
2009
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Umfangreiche Mietwohnungsbestände in Deutschland sind in den letzten Jahren das Ziel nationaler und internationaler Investoren gewesen. Insgesamt haben bei Transaktionen großer Wohnungsbestände von 1999 bis 2006 fast 1,3 Mio. Wohnungen den Besitzer gewechselt. Etwa 337 000 Wohnungen wurden von Kommunen verkauft. Das sind immerhin etwa 13,6% des ehemals kommunalen Bestands.
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Modelle für die Zukunft der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung
Ingmar Kumpmann
Kostenträger Entscheiderbrief 4/2009,
2009
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A discussion of different health insurance models and implications for the German health care system.
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A Panel Data Analysis on China's Intra-Industry Trade in the Capital Goods Sector
Yiping Zhu
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 18,
2009
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This paper adopts the Hausman-Taylor 2SLS error components approach in estimating the determinants of China's Intra-Industry Trade (IIT) in the capital goods sector with its 26 partner countries. It disaggregates IIT into horizontal IIT (HIIT) and vertical IIT (VIIT). Capital goods final products and intermediates are separately estimated in order to reveal the differentiated trade patterns. It finds that economic similarity is very significantly negatively correlated with the intermediates IIT, but to a less extent correlated with the final products IIT. Factor endowment is of no significance in determining IIT in the intermediates, although it is significantly positively correlated with the final products IIT. Economic size is significantly negatively correlated with both final products and intermediates IIT. Distance is not yet dead in impacting the level of final products IIT, but of less importance in influencing the intermediates IIT. China is exchanging intermediates in a less intraindustry manner with ASEAN nations. However, because VIIT is dominating TIIT, no significant differences exist between the estimation results of TIIT and VIIT.
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Can Fixed Exchange Rates Discipline Fiscal Policy?
Makram El-Shagi
CEGE Diskussionspapier Nr. 84,
2009
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Monopolistic Competition and Costs in the Health Care Sector
Ingmar Kumpmann
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 17,
2009
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Competition among health insurers is widely considered to be a means of enhancing efficiency and containing costs in the health care system. In this paper, it is argued that this could be unsuccessful since health care providers hold a strong position on the market for health care services. Physicians exert a type of monopolistic power which can be described by Chamberlin’s model of monopolistic competition. If many health insurers compete with one another, they cannot counterbalance the strong bargaining position of the physicians. Thus, health care expenditure is higher, financing either extra profits for physicians or a higher number of them. In addition, health insurers do not have an incentive to contract selectively with health care providers as long as there are no price differences between physicians. A monopolistic health insurer is able to counterbalance the strong position of physicians and to achieve lower costs.
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Behold the 'Behemoth'. The privatization of Japan Post Bank
Uwe Vollmer, Diemo Dietrich, Ralf Bebenroth
Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University, Discussion Paper Series No. 236,
2009
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Arbeitsmarktpolitik und ihre Wirkung auf Bildung – Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel von Sozialhilfe und Kombilohnmodellen
Makram El-Shagi, Jürgen Schröder
Effizienz, Qualität und Nachhaltigkeit im Gesundheitswesen – Theorie und Politik öffentlichen Handelns, insbesondere in der Krankenversicherung – Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Eberhard Wille,
2007
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