Cross-Border Investment, Heterogeneous Workers, and Employment Security - Evidence from Germany

Regional Incentives and Patient Cross-Border Mobility: Evidence from the Italian Experience

Background In recent years, accreditation of private hospitals followed by decentralisation of the Italian National Health Service (NHS) into 21 regional health systems has provided a good empirical ground for investigating the Tiebout principle of “voting with their feet”. We examine the infra-regional trade-off between greater patient choice (due to an increase in hospital services supply) an...

Cross-Border Migration, Employment and Economic Growth

Return on investment from employment of community health workers.

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are gaining acceptance in the US health care system, but have been subject to challenges as to their "cost-effectiveness." This situation is shifting, with a growing body of published evidence as to the effectiveness of CHWs, but much of the evidence of cost savings from employing CHWs is still unpublished. Return on investment analysis for CHWs must consider a r...

The pecking order of cross-border investment

Is there a pecking order of cross-border investment in that countries become financially integrated through some types of investment rather than others? Using a novel database of bilateral capital stocks for all types of investment – foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio equity securities, debt securities as well as loans – for a broad set of 77 countries, we show that such a pecking order...

Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries

This paper investigates competition between jurisdictions in the context of cross-border shopping for state lottery tickets. We rst develop a simple theoretical model in which consumers choose between state lotteries and face a trade-o between travel costs and the price of a fair gamble, which is declining in the size of the jackpot and the odds of winning. Given this trade-o , the model predic...