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Michael Grossman (born 1942) is an American health economist and economics professor emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY). He directed the Health Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) from 1972 to 2020. Grossman was an early contributor to New Home Economics (NHE).
The Grossman model of health demand is a model for studying the demand for health and medical care outlined by Michael Grossman in a monograph in 1972 entitled: The demand for health: A theoretical and empirical investigation. The model based demand for medical care on the interaction between a demand function for health and a production ...
A central insight of the theory is that the party with the more important investment decision should be the owner. Another prominent conclusion is that joint asset ownership is suboptimal if investments are in human capital. The Grossman–Hart–Moore model has been successfully applied in many contexts, e.g. with regard to privatization. [48]
The pandemic revealed the full extent of the U.S. housing crisis. Where were the roughly 580,000 people living unhoused in 2020 to go under "stay at home" orders? and what about those facing eviction?
So when the housing market began its descent and mortgage-backed securities lost so much of their value, Fannie and Freddie had so little capital that it hit them badly. “By the middle of the ...
Human capital is the value that the employees of a business provide through the application of skills, know-how and expertise. [43] It is an organization's combined human capability for solving business problems. Human capital is inherent in people and cannot be owned by an organization.
To close it sooner than that, according to McKinsey’s calculations, there would have to be a 20-year-long affordable housing plan, costing between $1.7 trillion to $2.4 trillion, producing 7.3 ...
These predictions and other predictions from models extending Grossman's 1972 paper form the basis of much of the econometric research conducted by health economists. [citation needed] In Grossman's model, the optimal level of investment in health occurs where the marginal cost of health capital is equal to the marginal benefit.