Phenomenal consciousness is often thought to involve a first-person perspective or point of view which makes available to the subject categorically private, first-person facts about experience, facts that are irreducible to third-person physical, functional, or representational facts. This paper seeks to show that on a representational account of consciousness, we don’t have an observational pe...

The increasing prominence of the private sector in health care provision has generated considerable interest in understanding its implications on quality and cost. This paper investigates the phenomenon of cream skimming in a mixed public-private hospital setting using the novel approach of analysing hospital transfers. We analyse hospital administrative data of patients with ischemic heart dis...

We employ a conditional event study methodology to determine if dual traders in futures markets are informed traders. Underpinning this approach is the assumption that a dual trader’s decision to trade on her own account is not random, but is endogenously determined by her expectations of profit related to this decision. Therefore, the appropriate empirical framework to analyze the issue is a s...

This paper deals with the optimal provision of infrastructure by means of public-private partnership contracts. In the economic literature infrastructure is characterized as a large, indivisible and non-rival capital good that produces services for its users. Users can be both consumers and producers. Consumers may derive utility from infrastructure, either indirectly, because it facilitates th...

there has been no research so far conducted on the financial participation of the private sector in iran’s industrial development during the last three decades. the present research has been carried out through documentary, survey and field methods. the participants were a sample of 146 private firm owners. previous studies have indicated that during the first decade after the islamic revolutio...