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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
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correction in the estimation of hospital performance. …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data …
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in Switzerland. This study is of interest from three points of view. First, contrary to most existing work, patient days … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …
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An important source of conflict surrounding nuclear energy is that with a very small probability, a large-scale nuclear accident may occur. One way to internalize the associated financial risks is through mandating nuclear operators to have liability insurance. This paper presents estimates of...
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the United States and Switzerland, adopting an investor point of view. Expected returns are defined by the rate of …, and Solar in the case of Switzerland, a country without domestic supplies of fossil fuels. Since shocks in generation … costs are found to be correlated, Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation (SURE) is used to filter out the systematic …
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Switzerland and the United States. Expected returns are given by the (negative of the) rate of increase of power generation cost … Nuclear, Run of river, Storage hydro and Solar in the case of Switzerland, and Coal, Nuclear, Gas, Oil, and Wind in the case … estimation (SURE) method is applied for filtering out the systematic component of the covariance matrix of the cost changes …
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future growth of HCE. For the case of Switzerland, it finds this contribution to be relatively small regardless of whether or …
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Switzerland. Private U.S. but not Swiss insurance has a hedging effect for consumers, while both social insurance schemes expose …
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the Zurich metropolitan area (Switzerland). We elicit WTP three hypothetical treatments of the demented patient. The …
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