In: Economia pubblica, 2000, vol. -, no. 4, p. 53-67
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The purpose of this study is to analyse the cost structure of a sample of Italian refuse collection firms in order to assess economies of scale and density so to estimate economic rationality of competition in the refuse collection. A translog cost function was estimated using panel data for a sample of 12 firms of refuse collection operating at provincial level over the period 1992-1995. The...
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Switzerland is a federal State where policy decisions and implementation regarding regional hospital plans are by rights incumbent to the regional and local governments (Canton and Town Council). This situation is in part responsible for the large number of small hospitals that have been built in recent years. In Switzerland, in fact, approx. 70% of hospitals have a capacity of less than 135...
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In many European countries, including England, Norway and Germany, the electricity sector has been deregulated. In Switzerland also the Parliament has adopted a new law – the Swiss Electricity Market Law (EML) -, which proposes to institute changes in the electricity market and therefore open the market to greater competition. The Swiss population will have to vote on the EML in September 2002....
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In this paper we have examined the scale and cost efficiency of Italian and Swiss regional bus companies. For this purpose, we have used the estimation of a frontier cost model using a fixed effect approach. Two translog cost frontier models were specified and estimated using panel data. The first model was estimated for a sample of 58 Italian bus companies, whereas the second model was estimated...
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Il sistema sanitario svizzero è, a giusta ragione, considerato uno dei più complessi al mondo e, almeno in parte, questa complessità è legata al federalismo. Pur avendo di fronte una nazione che, per dimensioni, è paragonabile ad un “Länder" tedesco o ad una regione italiana, non è infatti corretto parlare di sistema sanitario elvetico, quanto piuttosto di 26 sub-sistemi cantonali,...
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