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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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Accounting for heterogeneity in the measurement of hospital performance

Widmer, Philippe K.; Zweifel, Peter; Farsi, Mehdi - 2011

With prospective payment of hospitals becoming more common, measuring their performance is gaining in importance. However, the standard cost frontier model yields biased efficiency scores because it ignores technological heterogeneity between hospitals. In this paper, efficiency scores are...

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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland

Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data …

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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence about the relative merits of competing hypotheses. It tips the … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …

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How much internalization of nuclear risk through liability insurance?

Schneider, Yves; Zweifel, Peter - 2002

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

Krey, Boris; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

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 …

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Willingness-to-pay against dementia: Effects of altruism between patients and their spouse caregivers

König, Markus; Zweifel, Peter - 2004

the Zurich metropolitan area (Switzerland). We elicit WTP three hypothetical treatments of the demented patient. The …

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Age and choice in health insurance: Evidence from Switzerland

Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - 2007

Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform cost sharing. Both elements risk to burden the population with a welfare loss if preferences differ. This suggests introducing more contracted choice; however, it is widely...

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GPs' preferences: What price fee-for-service?

Zweifel, Peter; Rischatsch, Maurus; Brändle, Angelika - 2009

In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...

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