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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315507
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316845
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316907
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315480
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315486
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315504
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315510
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315512
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Efficient electricity portfolios for Switzerland and the United States
Krey, Boris; Zweifel, Peter - 2006
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 …. Results suggest that at observed generation costs in 2003, the maximum expected return (MER) portfolio for Switzerland would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315522
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Cost sharing in health insurance: An instrument for risk selection?
Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - 2005
Health insurance is potentially subject to risk selection, i.e. adverse selection on the part of consumers and cream skimming on the part of insurers. Adverse selection models predict that competitive health insurers can eschew high-risk individuals by offering contracts with low deductibles or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315523