BACKGROUND The impact of diabetes on health-care expenditures has been increasingly recognized. To formulate an effective health planning and resource allocation, it is important to determine economic burden. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to assess the cost of illness (COI) for diabetic inpatients with or without complications. METHODOLOGY The study was conducted in the medicine ...

Many U.S. banks have tried to take advantage of and contribute to economic growth in developing countries by establishing branches in foreign nations.' When political and economic conditions become unstable, foreign governments have on occasion expropriated the branches' assets. Depositors unable to withdraw their funds because of the expropriation may attempt to recover from the U.S. bank's ho...

Integration into the world economy has accelerated economic growth in many developing countries, providing an essential impetus to poverty reduction (IMF 2001). Continuing growth and integration of world markets, however, has reduced the distinction between domestic and international policies and provoked criticism of the trade-restricting measures of developed countries. The highly protected a...

I explore the equilibrium value implications of economic models that incorporate responses to a stochastic environment with growth. I propose dynamic valuation decompositions (DVD’s) designed to distinguish components of an underlying economic model that influence values over long investment horizons from components that impact only the short run. A DVD represents the values of stochastically g...

With the advent of the EMU and the widespread financial integration many efforts have been undertaken by European financial authorities. In the case of Spain, there are many regulatory and institutional factors that condition a deeper financial integration. This paper analyzes the relationships between corporate performance and the financial sector. The aim of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it ...

Financial transactions increase according to the economic growth of the nation. As India’s economy is growing rapidly large amount of money transactions are increasing rapidly. Apart from currency notes and credit/debit cards cheques plays very vital role in transaction of large amount of money for their ease and convenience. Due to this cheques are vulnerable to forgeries by anti-social elemen...

This paper compares the performance of regional banks and national banks in Korea for the period of 19922004 by examining how the profitability of these two groups differs, identifying major determinants of profitability for each group, and explaining their similarities and differences. Two competing hypotheses, the market power hypothesis and the efficient structure hypothesis, are tested in a...

JULY/AUGUST 2003 129 P hil Strahan and various coauthors have written a series of significant papers on the impact of interstate banking and intrastate branching deregulation. His present paper summarizes and extends much of that research.1 I suspect that most economists would agree that draconian restrictions on branch banking or on the ability of bank holding companies to cross state lines ma...