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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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Regulation of health: case studies of Sweden and Switzerland
Zweifel, Peter (ed.); Lyttkens, Carl Hampus (contributor);  … - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000672128
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The contribution of managed care to the performance of healthcare systems : evidence from three countries
Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 144 (2008) 3, pp. 477-493
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776028
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Correlated risks: a conflict of interest between insurers and consumers and its resolution
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003354444
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An economic analysis of payment for health care services : the United States and Switzerland compared
Zweifel, Peter; Tai-Seale, Ming - In: International journal of health care finance and economics 9 (2009) 2, pp. 197-210
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860926
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892461
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892462
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894063