Projecting health-care expenditure for Switzerland: further evidence against the 'red-herring' hypothesis
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- Colombier, Carsten & Weber, Werner, 2009. "Projecting health-care expenditure for Switzerland: further evidence against the 'red-herring' hypothesis," MPRA Paper 26747, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Nov 2009.
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health-care expenditure; population ageing; public health-care budget; proximity to death; morbidity;All these keywords.
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- H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
- I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
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