Organisations

Research within I-CHER will focus on topics in the following research areas:

1. Health-economic evaluations (costs and benefits of medicines and medical technologies);
2. Health and business economics aspects of hospital policy
3. Health-economic aspects of physical exercise, nutrition, healthy lifestyle and preventive health care in general
4. Health-economic aspects of various organizational models and medical care programs ...

1.ECONOMETRICS:*Empirical economic models: country models, global models , specification, estimation & simulation.*Consumer demand: systems of demand functions for economies as a whole and for groups of products. *Portfolio models: descriptive models for financial investment.*New technology & employment: microeconomic impact of technological change on employment.*Labor contracts: the allocation of risk over partners & ...

The research team focuses on the analysis of the economics of transition, with a special emphasis on empirical testing of theory using micro economic databases. The latter include firm level data collected by means of large scale business survey data. The main research topics that we focus on include: - the analysis of firm restructuring in transition countries, using approaches from Schumpeterian growth theory. - the analysis of job ...

Labor economics seeks to understand the workings and dynamics of labor markets. Labor markets function by virtue of the interaction between workers and employers. Labor economics looks at the supply of labor services (employees), the demand for labor services (employers), and attempts to understand the resulting pattern of wages, employment, and income.

The Policy Management group carries out economic research on public policy. The group focuses on the efficiency and effectiveness of government interventions by carrying out cost-effectiveness analyses and cost-benefit analyses. Furthermore, research is performed on the impact of the regulatory quality (ease of requesting permits, administrative burdens,...) on the ease of doing business in Europe.

Research topics are

•     Social and economic history
•     Economic politics, economics, econometrics, economic theory, economic systems,
•     Financial sciences
•     Economic planning
•     International trade
•     Development cooperation