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Date: 07/2005
Author(s): Mas Canal, Núria
Editor(s): PPSRC - Public-Private Sector Research Center
Document type: Working Paper
The introduction of managed care has dramatically changed the US health care market. However, most of the literature has focused on analyzing the performance of managed care relative to other types of health insurance, while research focusing on its impact on the uninsured has been minimal. This paper contributes ...
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Date: 07/02/2013
Author(s): Mas Canal, Núria
Document type: Article in Journal (refereed)
Healthcare financing and insurance is changing everywhere. We want to understand the impact that financial pressures can have for the uninsured in advanced economies. To do so we focus on analyzing the effect of the introduction in the US of managed care and the big rise in financial pressures that it implied. Traditionally, in ...
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Date: 07/2008
Author(s): Mas Canal, Núria; Seinfeld, Janice
Document type: Article in Journal (refereed)
This paper examines the effect that managed care activity (aimed at controlling health care expenditure) has on the adoption of technologies by hospitals. We analyze annual data on 5,390 US hospitals for the period 1982-1995 and look at the adoption of 13 different technologies. Our results are threefold: First, we find that managed ...
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Date: 03/2004
Author(s): Mas Canal, Núria; Seinfeld, Janice
Editor(s): PPSRC - Public-Private Sector Research Center
Document type: Working Paper
As health care costs increase, cost-control mechanisms become more widespread and it is crucial to understand their implications for the health care market. This paper examines the effect that managed care activity (based on the aim to control health care expenditure) has on the adoption of technologies by hospitals. ...
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Date: 02/2009
Author(s): Mas Canal, Núria
Editor(s): PPSRC - Public-Private Sector Research Center
Document type: Working Paper
The United States relies on charitable medical care to serve the uninsured, most of which is offered by hospitals that act as providers of last resort and that constitute the safety net. Traditionally, these hospitals have been able to finance their provision of unfunded care through a complex system of cross-subsidies. ...
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Date: 09/2001
Author(s): Mas Canal, Núria
Supervisor(s): Hoxby, Caroline M.; Thesis advisor(s): Cutler, D.M.
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
My thesis revolves around two main topics: the first one encompasses the first two chapters of the thesis and it focuses on understanding how hospitals and individuals –be it doctors, or patients- strategically respond to incentives and regulation in the healthcare market. In the first chapter I analyze how hospitals adjust their provision of ...
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Date: 11/10/2007
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Interviewee(s): Lee, Hau L.
Document type: Interview (Video)
In this interview, Lee highlights the importance of the whole complete value net, which must be managed and coordinated well in order to make a difference and solve operational problems. He also talks about the evolution of the value chain and highlights China as a source of innovation.
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Date: 28/06/2007
Author(s): Sachon, Marc
Editor(s): CIIL - Centro Internacional de Investigación Logística
Document type: Case
Borgers Group, a fifth generation owner-managed family business producing textile-based sound-proofing solutions for the European automotive industry, has established production facilities all over Europe, including three factories in the Czech Republic. The company has a track record of quality and innovation and is a supplier to all automotive ...
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Date: 06/03/2007
Author(s): Soley Sans, Jorge; Liechtenstein, Heinrich
Document type: Technical Note
This technical note aims to clarify the processes of fund investment and management. An analysis is made of the three types of analysis used for both fixed income and variable income funds:
- Macro analysis (top-down)
- Micro analysis (bottom-up)
- Quantitative analysis
Particular attention is paid to the key points in any process of fund investment ...
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Date: 10/2011
Author(s): García Castro, Roberto; Sharma, P.
Document type: Article in Journal (refereed)
Prior empirical research has found positive, negative and neutral relationships between family involvement in business and firm performance. These inconsistent findings may be partly explained by the different levels of family involvement. Family firms are not homogeneous entities; there are family-owned, family-governed and family-managed firms. ...
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