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Optimal cost reimbursement of health insurers to reduce risk selection

Kifmann, Mathias; Lorenz, Normann - 2005

In the absence of a perfect risk adjustment scheme, reimbursing health insurers' costs can reduce risk selection in community-rated health insurance markets. In this paper, we develop a model in which insurers determine the cost efficiency of health care and have incentives for risk selection....

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Competition in Social Health Insurance: A Three-Country Comparison

Greß, Stefan - 2004

The objectives guiding health care reforms in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands were to increase efficiency and consumer satisfaction in the provision of health care services. This paper sums up incentives and instruments of competition for consumers, sickness funds and health care...

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Wettbewerb der Steuersysteme in Europa - eine vergleichende Analyse am Beispiel der Region Oberrheingraben unter Einbeziehung aktueller Reformvorschläge

Eckerle, Tobias H. - 1997

Oberrheingraben und die dahinter stehenden Steuersysteme Deutschlands, Frankreichs und der Schweiz zu untersuchen und zu überprüfen … Schweiz durchweg am geringsten ist. Betrachtet man die Steuerbelastung auf Unternehmensebene, so werden deutsche … der Region überall weitgehend das gleiche Niveau aufweist. Dagegen können in Frankreich und der Schweiz je nach Gemeinde …

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External Costs of Road, Rail and Air Transport - a Bottom-Up Approach

Weinreich, Sigurd; Rennings, Klaus; Schlomann, Barbara; … - 1998

This paper aims to describe the calculation of environmental and health externalities caused by air pollutants, accidents and noise from different transport modes (road, rail, air) on the route Frankfurt-Milan. The investigation is part of the QUITS project (QUITS = Quality Indicators for...

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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Economic impacts of a premature nuclear phase-out in Switzerland

Böhringer, Christoph; Wickart, Marcel; Müller, Andre - 2001

This paper investigates the economic impacts of two policy proposals: "Strom ohne Atom" (SOA) and "Moratorium Plus" (MOP), both of which contain a premature phase-out of nuclear power in Switzerland. While MOP restricts business-as-usual operation time of existing nuclear power plants to 40...

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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices

Schröder, Michael - 2003

The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...

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Beyond resilience: Welfare state changes in Austria, Denmark, New Zealand and Switzerland

Obinger, Herbert; Leibfried, Stephan; Bogedan, Claudia; … - 2004

Forms of European multi-level administration show an increased 'defibration' of the state through a shift of functioning onto the European level, onto other transnationally acting member states and onto the level of social self-organisation. At the same time a new 'complexity' is to be observed...

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Globalization and the transformation of the national political space: Six european countries compared

Kriesi, Hanspeter; Grande, Edgar; Lachat, Romain; … - 2005

In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...

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Prospects for a European welfare state: Lessons from welfare state development in six OECD-Federations

Obinger, Herbert; Leibfried, Stephan; Castles, Francis G. - 2005

This paper uses the findings of a very recent major international research collaboration on the impact of federal arrangements on the development of the welfare state to explore the possibilities of progress beyond Europe's present diversity of nation-state welfare standards. These findings -...

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