Economists would have formulated several aspects of the health care reform debate differently than policy entrepreneurs did. Economists would have questioned whether health care costs must be contained and whether either competition or global budgets were a “magic bullet” for doing so. They also would have emphasized the distortive costs of subsidies and taxes necessary to reach universal cover...

The paper investigates the relationship between bank interest rate margins and collateral for loans issued to new ventures. The analysis finds a convex U-shaped relationship. The results indicate that while provision of collateral initially reduces bank exposure to risk (through security, more optimal levels of capital and lower moral hazard among entrepreneurs) that beyond a point the positive...

There is an implicit blindly bubble situation behind the interest and enthusiasm towards the Internet entrepreneurship, so it is necessary for entrepreneurs to make scientific and reasonable assessment about the possible risks before the related decisions made. This research embarks from the perspective of entrepreneurs and focus on the risk factors of entrepreneurship in Internet industry base...

Background New technologies constitute an important cost-driver in healthcare, but the dynamics that lead to their emergence remains poorly understood from a health policy standpoint. The goal of this paper is to clarify how entrepreneurs, investors, and regulatory agencies influence the value of emerging health technologies.   Methods Our 5-year qualitative research program examined the proces...

This paper presents new data on entrepreneurs’ self-described decision processes 5 when choosing where to locate, based on scripted interviews with 49 well-placed business 6 owners and senior managers in charge of location choice. Consideration sets are surprisingly 7 small, especially among those who are successful. According to entrepreneurs’ own accounts, 8 locations are frequently discovere...

This paper seeks to measure the extent to which entrepreneurs adjust their beliefs in the light of new information, rather than relying on past experience to guide their decision making. We build a model in which entrepreneurs continually receive valuable but noisy market signals about the true but unobserved productivity of their effort, and use this information to update their expectations of...

Background: HIV/AIDS control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. The aim of this study was to determine how HIV/AIDS control was initiated among policy makers’ agenda setting in Iran.   Methods: A qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using Kingdon’s framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy...

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. The aim of this study was to determine how HIV/AIDS control was initiated among policy makers' agenda setting in Iran. METHODS A qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using Kingdon's framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy entrepreneurs) to ana...