Firm survival, bankruptcy, and turnaround are of great interest nowadays. Bankruptcy is the ultimate resource for a company to survive when it affected by severe decline. Thus, determinants firm survival in context bankruptcy researchers, managers, policy-makers. Prior literature has broadly studied firm-specific factors success. However, location-specific remain relatively unstudied despite th...

Life-span psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine whether and how regional variables relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year longitudinal data from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 3,427; ag...

BACKGROUND In spite of a detailed and nation-wide legislation frame, there exist large cantonal disparities in consumed quantities of health care services in Switzerland. In this study, the most important factors of influence causing these regional disparities are determined. The findings can also be productive for discussing the containment of health care consumption in other countries. METH...

Black Americans have substantially higher rates of cardiovascular mortality than other racial and ethnic groups in the United States, and they have experienced much less improvement in this important outcome than white Americans over the past 15 years. Racial disparities in cardiovascular treatment contributing to this mortality gap have been extensively documented. Numerous deficiencies, howev...

Issues regarding healthcare disparity continue to increase in connection with access to quality care for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), even though the case-fatality rate (CFR) continues to decrease. We explored regional variation in AMI CFRs and examined whether the variation was due to disparities in access to quality medical services

categories. The classification was carried Cultural/lifestyle diversity Knowledge society Media convergence Circulation and Distribution of Value Service productivity e-government . e-democracy Entertainment Frontier fields Energy Natural disasters Medical care Food Accidents Crime prevention Domestic regional disparities Aging society Intl. economic disparity Education Cyber Security Maximizin...

BACKGROUND Many patients with chronic hepatitis C have been treated with interferon (IFN) therapy in Japan, especially after the introduction of subsidies for medical expenses in 2008. However, its performance and outcome have never been evaluated. Therefore, a nationwide, mail-based, retrospective cohort study was conducted. METHODS Regional disparities in the demographic features, treatment...

Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an ”ethically offensive” and an ”ethically acceptable” part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the income distributions of South an...

Using the panel data of 27 provinces between 1978 and 2008, we employed a instrumental regression technique to examine the relationship between economic growth, energy demand/production and the related policies in China. The empirical results show that forming a cross-province integrated energy market will in general reduce the response of equilibrium user costs of energy products to their loca...

The Research Institute of Applied Economics (IREA) in Barcelona was founded in 2005, as a research institute in applied economics. Three consolidated research groups make up the institute: AQR, RISK and GiM, and a large number of members are involved in the Institute. IREA focuses on four priority lines of investigation: (i) the quantitative study of regional and urban economic activity and ana...