Swiss DRGs: Patient Heterogeneity and Hospital PaymentsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 144 - Trang 309-322 - 2008
Michel Mougeot, Florence Naegelen
In this paper, we analyze the prospective method of paying hospitals when the within-DRG variance is high. To avoid patients dumping, an outlier payment system is implemented. In the APDRG Swiss System, it consists in a mixture of fully prospective payments for low costs patients and partially cost-based system for high cost patients. We show how the optimal policy depends on the degree to which h...... hiện toàn bộ
Welfare effects of technology-based climate policies in liberalized electricity markets: seeing beyond total system costSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 155 - Trang 1-12 - 2019
Sophie Maire, Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer
This paper is a contribution to assessing the Swiss energy transition, with an emphasis on the consequences of decommissioning the nuclear power plants for the electricity market and the whole economy. We expect that increased renewable generation and demand-side policies of the type already envisioned will not suffice to close the supply gap, so that Switzerland will have to rely on more imports ...... hiện toàn bộ
An Efficiency Comparison of Regional Employment Offices Operating under Different Exogenous ConditionsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 143 - Trang 31-48 - 2007
José V. Ramirez, Anatoli Vassiliev
This paper investigates the technical efficiency differences of a sample of regional employment offices (REOs) across Swiss cantons. Regular job-search assistance, registration and matching of unemployed workers with job vacancies performed by employment offices are all important active labour market policies (ALMPs) which are often ignored in the literature evaluating the impact of active measure...... hiện toàn bộ
The Sources and Magnitudes of Switzerland’s Gains from TradeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 152 - Trang 1-21 - 2016
Christian Hepenstrick
This paper uses the modern workhorse model of quantitative trade theory (Eaton and Kortum, 2002) as a measurement tool to quantify Switzerland’s gains from trade. I find that individual trading partners matter surprisingly little for Switzerland’s welfare because of reallocation effects: if trade between Switzerland and some partner country is inhibited, other supplier countries step into the brea...... hiện toàn bộ
An analysis of technical efficiency and efficiency factors for Austrian and Swiss non-profit theatresSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 147 - Trang 233-274 - 2011
Marta Zieba
This article explores the measurement of the production technology and efficiency of the performing arts sector. The stochastic frontier analysis has been used to estimate the technical efficiency scores for 20 Austrian and 30 Swiss non-profit theatres over 36 and 26 years, respectively. The number of visitors and tickets on offer are considered as two alternative measures of artistic output. The ...... hiện toàn bộ
Regional per Capita-Income — The Importance of Region-Specific Production FactorsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 145 - Trang 155-185 - 2009
Dirk Fornahl, Axel Schaffer, Jochen Siegele
Endowment with infrastructure, human and cultural capital is highly significant for regional economic performance. After clustering the regions, this hypothesis is tested for Austrian, German and Swiss NUTS 3 regions by applying a quantile regression analysis. First results confirm the hypothesis for all factors. However, coefficients differ significantly both between clusters as well as among the...... hiện toàn bộ
Tiebout sorting with progressive income taxation and a fiscal equalization schemeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 158 - Trang 1-21 - 2022
Florian Kuhlmey
This paper develops a model of Tiebout sorting with decentrally determined progressive income taxation and a built-in fiscal equalization scheme that redistributes money from richer to poorer regions. Both aspects are central to policy makers: the progressivity for equity reasons and the fiscal equalization to prevent an underprovision of the publicly provided good and to limit the degree of segre...... hiện toàn bộ