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

Switzerland. Private U.S. but not Swiss insurance has a hedging effect for consumers, while both social insurance schemes expose …

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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

competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …

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

Krey, Boris B.; 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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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 - Rev. version

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

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010 - Revised version

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

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Capping risk adjustment?

Eugster, Patrick; Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

home during the previous year" will be added in Switzerland starting 2012. This paper investigates how to minimize the …

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Fine tuning of health insurance regulation : unhealthy consequences for an individual insurer

Schoder, Johannes; Sennhauser, Michèle; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

This paper sheds light on some unexpected consequences of health insurance regulation that may pose a big challenge to insurers’ risk management. Because mandated uniform contributions to health insurance trigger risk selection efforts risk adjustment (RA) schemes become necessary. A good deal...

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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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Is the welfare state sustainable? : experimental evidence on citizens' preferences for redistribution

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010

elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its …

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

König, Markus (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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

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