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The health care challenge: some perspectives from behavioral economics

National health care goals generally include providing broad access to appropriate amounts of high-quality health care at appropriate cost to the ultimate payers. Yet all countries, regardless of how they deliver and finance health care, struggle to achieve a sustainable balance among the implicit tradeoffs. Does this struggle stem from the limited scope for competition in health care or from information asymmetries? Or does it simply reflect the inherent difficulty of measuring health care output and quality? Alternatively, does it result from deep-seated human behavior - a tendency for ...
Conference Series ; [Proceedings] , Volume 50 , Issue Jun , Pages 61-75

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Does the location of ideas matter for employment and earnings in the Internet age?

Freeman talked about the development of ideas and their impact on U.S. workers. It used to be the case that the place where new knowledge was created had an advantage in commercializing it. But Freeman argues that modern communications technologies allow new ideas rapid exposure on a world stage, where the ever-growing numbers of technically skilled workers in developing countries stand capable of turning them into profit-making opportunities. Freeman emphasizes the need for policies that foster knowledge creation in areas where the home-field advantage can be maintained. He says that the ...
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Debt, financial stability, and public policy : a symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 27-29, 1986

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

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Monetary policy in the information economy

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

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Macroeconomic implications of the new economy : commentary

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

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Future directions for agricultural policy analysis

Proceedings – Rural and Agricultural Conferences

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A historical perspective on the Federal Reserve's monetary aggregates: definition, construction and targeting

Proceedings , Issue Mar , Pages 1-31

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Seismic shifts: the economic impact of demographic change: an overview

Most economic developments are hard to predict. Considerable uncertainty surrounds forecasts for output growth, inflation, and unemployment a year from now, for instance. But demographic developments are different in this respect. Although demographic surprises abound, the major trends build slowly, and the broad contours of medium-term outcomes become discernible well in advance.
Conference Series ; [Proceedings] , Volume 46

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New financial world: policy shortcomings and remedies

Conference Series ; [Proceedings] , Volume 42 , Issue Jun , Pages 359-370

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Hysteresis in unemployment - comments

Larry Ball's paper contains two basic ideas. The first is a second generation Phillips Curve which relates changes in inflation to the level of the unemployment rate and the second is the idea that monetary policy has extremely persistent effects on the unemployment rate, well beyond effects over the business cycle.
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