Models for Dynamic Macroeconomics or Global Health Care Markets

Models for Dynamic Macroeconomics

Author: Fabio Cesare C Bagliano

Models for Dynamic Microeconomics provides the advanced student with key methodological tools for the dynamic analysis of a core selection of macroeconomic phenomena, including consumption and investment choices, employment and unemployment outcomes, and economic growth.
The technical treatment of these tools will enable the student to handle current journal literature, while not assuming any particular familiarity with advanced analytical tools or mathematical notions. As these tools are introduced, they are related to particular applications to illustrate their use.
Chapters are linked by various formal and substantive threads. Discrete-time optimization under uncertainty, introduced in Chapter 1, is motivated and discussed by applications to consumption theory, with particular attention to empirical implementation. Chapter 2 focuses on continuous-time optimization techniques, and discusses the relevant insights in the context of partial-equilibrium investment models. Chapter 3 revisits many of the previous chapters' formal derivations with applications to dynamic labour demand, in comparison to optimal investment models, and characterizes labor market equilibrium when not only individual firms' labor demand, but also individual labor supply by workers, is subject to adjustment costs. Chapter 4 proposes broader applications of methods introduced in the previous chapters and studies continuous-time equilibrium dynamics of representative agent economies, featuring both consumption and investment choices, with applications to long-run growth frameworks of analysis. Chapter 5 illustrates the role of decentralized trading in determining aggregate equilibria, andcharacterizes aggregate labor market dynamics in the presence of frictional unemployment. Chapters 4 and 5 pay particular attention to strategic interactions and externalities: even when each agent correctly solves his or her individual dynamic problem, modern microfounded macroeconomic models recognize that macroeconomic equilibrium need not have unambiguously desirable properties.
By bridging the gap between undergraduate economics and modern microfounded macroeconomic research, this book will be of interest to graduate students in economics, and as a technical reference for economic researchers.

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Global Health Care Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Regions, Trends, and Opportunities Shaping the International Health Arena

Author: Walter W Wieners

Keeping in step with the ever expanding global economy, health care providers and pharmaceutical companies are establishing themselves in foreign health markets at an unprecedented rate. The question is, How can these organizations prepare themselves for the challenges and opportunities they will find in today's worldwide health care marketplace? Written by an international panel of highly acclaimed health care experts, Global Health Care Markets is a comprehensive guide to the current state of health care delivery systems worldwide. This much-needed resource profiles the world's most significant regions and markets, analyzes the important trends in international medicine and technology, and provides helpful projections of the opportunities for providers, vendors, agencies, and governments.

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Reviewer: Eugene C. Rich, MD (Creighton University Medical Center)
Description: This multiauthored book describes healthcare systems and healthcare markets in Europe, North America, Latin America, the Pacific basin, and Asia.
Purpose: The purpose is to present a practical business guide or tool for analyzing diverse systems and furthering discussions of the major trends affecting global healthcare. The book is intended to be used as a guide for businesses seeking to enter new markets as well as a resource for educators.
Audience: The intended audience is healthcare organization executives interested in international healthcare markets as well as healthcare administration and health policy educators and scholars.
Features: This work begins with an initial section entitled "Understanding Global Health Markets," which includes eight chapters ranging from "Trends in Expenditures, Access, and Outcomes Among Industrialized Countries" to "Projecting the Impact of Trade Regulations." The remaining five sections focus on developments in major geographic areas (Europe, North America, Latin America, the Pacific basin, Asia). The book shows some signs of inconsistent editing. The chapter organization varies substantially, complicating comparison on common issues across national healthcare markets. It appears the chapters were written at different times. A number of these appear to be written in 1998 and there are several chapters with references to "future" health policy events and national health policy changes, which were anticipated to occur early in the year 2000. Chapters are often under-referenced and the pertinence and the currency of the references varies. The index is inconsistent in its level of detail; potentially important topics such as primary healthcare or primary care providers are not indexed at all and others such as public health are referenced only for a particular country (e.g. the Netherlands).
Assessment: This book has a variety of limitations as described above, perhaps understandable given the daunting complexity of this topic. The recent publication by Powell and Wessen, Healthcare Systems in Transition, provides a much more substantive analysis of changes in the organization and finance of some important European and Canadian systems; Powell and Wessen, however, do not provide information on the much broader range of national health systems (e.g. Latin American and Asian countries) offered by this book.

Booknews

A guide to national health-care policies and the financing and delivery of health care globally, with a focus on Europe, Latin America, the Pacific Basin, Asia, and North America. It's intended both as a business tool for companies that want to expand into health care or enter new markets, and also as a resource for learning, teaching, and conducting academic research. An introductory section analyzes issues such as the impact of information technology, understanding diverse health-care systems, and regulatory environments. It's followed by chapters on individual countries that discuss issues such as specific policies, key historical events, and market conditions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Fatbrain

"Health care executives need a practical "how to" guide for understanding the impact of technology on global markets. This is just such a book."
--Paul W. Nice, national director, eHealth, Alliances Oracle Corporation

"This book is a comprehensive and informative guide to health policy and health systems throughout the world. It is an invaluable source for all those interested in the theory and practice of health care delivery and health policy, internationally."
--Richard G. A. Feachem, director, Institute for Global Health and professor of International Health, University of California, San Francisco, and University of California, Berkeley

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Figures and Tables
	Foreword
	Preface
	The Editor
	The Editorial Advisory Board and Sponsoring Organization
	The Contributors
Pt. 1	Understanding Global Health Markets and the Forces that Shape Them	1
1	Comparing Global Health Systems: Lessons and Caveats	7
2	Trends in Expenditures, Access, and Outcomes Among Industrialized Countries	24
3	Critical Issues in Evaluating Global Markets	43
4	When Managed Care Doesn't Travel Well; A Case Study of South Africa	52
5	The Role of Regulation in Global Managed Care	66
6	Accreditation and Globalization	81
7	Information and Communication Technology	94
8	Projecting the Impact of Trade Regulations	103
Pt. 2	Europe	115
9	The Netherlands	121
10	Germany	139
11	Spain	153
12	France	164
13	United Kingdom	173
14	Israel	183
15	Poland	194
16	Russia	202
Pt. 3	Latin America	211
17	Brazil	213
18	Argentina	229
19	Chile	237
20	Mexico	247
21	Culture Clash: A Case Study of Mexico	263
Pt. 4	Pacific Basin	271
22	Malaysia	273
23	The Philippines	282
24	Australia	294
25	New Zealand	304
Pt. 5	Asia	315
26	China	317
27	Hong Kong	331
28	India	339
29	Japan	352
Pt. 6	North America	365
30	Canada	367
31	United States of America	382
	Index	401