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How much internalization of nuclear risk through liability insurance?

Schneider, Yves (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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Flat-of-the-curve medicine : a new perspective on the production of health

Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health...

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Spurious correlation in estimation of the health production function : a note

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...

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Efficient electricity portfolios for Switzerland and the United States

Krey, Boris (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2006

estimation (SURE) method is applied for filtering out the systematic component of the covariance matrix of the cost changes …

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The impact of aging on future healthcare expenditure

Steinmann, Lukas (contributor); Telser, Harry (contributor); … - 2006 - Revised version

The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports to shed light on several issues. First, it presents new evidence on the relative importance of the two components of HCE that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier...

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Eugster, Patrick (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2006

This contribution starts out by noting a conflict of interest between consumers and insurers. Consumers face positive correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively...

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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland

Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

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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Efficient electricity portfolios for the United States and Switzerland : an investor view

Krey, Boris B.; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

costs are found to be correlated, Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation (SURE) is used to filter out the systematic … electricity markets. -- efficiency frontier ; energy ; electricity ; portfolio theory ; Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation …

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A pharmaceutical innovation : is it worth the money? Whose money?

Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

benefit list of social health insurance. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was conducted in Germany to measure preferences …

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Preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands : a tale of two countries

Zweifel, Peter; Leukert, Karolin; Berner, Stephanie - 2010 - This version, Dez. 2009

measures willingness to pay for health insurance attributes in Germany and the Netherlands. Since the Dutch DCE was carried out … government in the context of the reform effective in the sense of reducing status quo bias? Based on random-effects Probit …, status quo bias in the Netherlands is one-half of the German value, suggesting that Dutch consumers were indeed made to bear …

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