Inhibited privatization: a hurdle race over vested interests

The hurdle-race problem

We consider the problem of how to determine the required level of the current provision in order to be able to meet a series of future deterministic payment obligations, in case the provision is invested according to a given random return process. Approximate solutions are derived, taking into account imposed minimum levels of the future random values of the reserve. The paper ends with numeric...

Through the looking glass: anemia guidelines, vested interests, and distortions.

T he most recent National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF-KDOQI) Clinical Practice Guidelines and Clinical Practice Recommendations for Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease report, released in May 2006, has led to intense debate and scrutiny in both the scientific and the lay press. At issue are the process and the timing of the report, the role of participants and...

Munchausen syndrome by proxy: more than "economic vested interests".

Parents' champions vs. vested interests: Who do parents believe about MMR? A qualitative study

BACKGROUND Despite the Government acting quickly to reassure parents about MMR safety following the publication of the 1998 paper by Wakefield and colleagues, MMR uptake declined. One of the reasons suggested for this decline is a loss of public trust in politicians and health professionals. The purpose of this analysis was to examine parents' views on the role the media, politicians and health...

Vested Interests Obstructing Information Systems Use: Land Administration in a Least Developed Country

While there are identified factors that inhibit information communication technology (ICT) adoption in the public sector of LDCs such as lack of knowledge, attitude and mindset, leadership, socio-economic condition, infrastructure and so on, another implicit and relatively unexplored factor, the „vested interest‟ of some stakeholder groups, often becomes the overriding factor for ICT and inform...