Chinese Criminal Procedure Reform of 2012 ‒ How Much Reform Did it Bring?

How much will health care reform cost?

Why and how did Israel adopt activity-based hospital payment? The Procedure-Related Group incremental reform.

Historically, Israel paid its non-profit hospitals on a perdiem (PD) basis. Recently, like other OECD countries, Israel has moved to activity-based payments. While most countries have adopted a diagnostic related group (DRG) payment system, Israel has chosen a Procedure-Related Group (PRG) system. This differs from the DRG system because it classifies patients by procedure rather than diagnosis...

Automatic IRA Reform: How Much Will Retirement Income Go Up?

The only available answer to this question — from a 2011 study by Butrica and Johnson that uses the Urban Institute DYNASIM microsimulation model — is that after-tax per-adult family income at age seventy will rise on average by three to five percent after a lifetime of experience with automatic IRAs. And the average percentage rise would be from six to twelve percent for those in the bottom ha...

IT, Enterprise Reform and Productivity in Chinese Manufacturing Firms

This paper is a first attempt of looking into the impact of IT and enterprise reform on productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms by using large scale firm level datasets from 1995 to 2002. It is found that enterprise reforms captured by entry and exit of firms have a positive impact on aggregated productivity growth. In addition, IT plays relatively more important role in productivity perfor...

Might Fundamental Tax Reform Increase Criminal Activity?

There is a widely held perception that fundamental tax reform would reduce the level of criminal and other “underground” economic activity. The popular argument relies on the idea that replacing the income tax with a sales tax would implicitly tax the return to criminal activity, whereas the return to crime is effectively untaxed by an income tax. This paper finds instead that the impact of tax...