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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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This paper examines the application of different parametric methods to measure cost efficiency of electricity distribution utilities. The cost frontier model is estimated using four methods: Displaced Ordinary Least Squares, Fixed Effects, Random Effects and Maximum Likelihood Estimation. These methods are applied to a sample of 59 distribution utilities in Switzerland. The data consist of an...
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This paper examines the issue of cost-efficiency in Switzerland’s nursing homes, an issue of concern to policy makers because of the rapid growth of elderly care expenditure and the aging of the population. The fact that nursing homes in Switzerland exist in different institutional forms, private for-profit, government and non-profit status, raises the issue of their relative cost efficiency. A...
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I dati fiscali pubblicati dall'Amministrazione federale delle contribuzioni vengono utilizzati per porre in evidenza le caratteristiche più salienti della distribuzione dei redditi. Si evidenzia dapprima come, a livello di tutto il paese, le disparità siano andate aumentando nel ventennio dal 1975/76 al 1995/96. La concentrazione verso l'alto è avvenuta a seguito di un peggioramento delle...
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This report presents basic data on the public financing of research and development in Switzerland from 1969 to 1998. Using the original data from the Swiss Federal Office for Statistics, the author has corrected and completed the time series for the different categories of expenditures, so that to allow for long-term comparison: the considered categories are the research of the public sector,...
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This paper examines the effects of hospital conversions between For-Profit and Not-For-Profit forms on quality of medical care. The sample includes Medicare patients treated in California’s private hospitals from 1990 to 1998 for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Congestive Heart Failure. The results suggest that converted hospitals have experienced quality changes before conversion, which may...
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Based on literature from the domains of organization science, marketing, accounting, and management information systems, this review article examines the theoretical basis of the information overload discourse and presents an overview of the main definitions, situations, causes, effects, and countermeasures. It analyses the contributions from the last thirty years to consolidate the existing...
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This paper presents a standard endogenous growth framework in which the source of growth is represented by vertical innovation. The crucial assumption we introduce is that there is a positive information-gap concerning the discovery of innovation. The aim of reducing the information dissemination lag provides incentives for firms to decide to merge their research efforts. At the same time we find...
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