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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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competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …
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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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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 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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We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on...
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Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re-luctance to choose technical occupations, although the foundations for career choices are certainly laid earlier, during education. Educational experts claim that female students are doing better in math and science and are...
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