In: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2015, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 21-38
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In: Surgical Endoscopy And Other Interventional Techniques, 2006, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 92-95
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In: Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, 2007, vol. 21, no. 5, p. 389-398
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In: Economic Modelling, 2015, vol. 51, p. 289-298
Population aging is challenging governments to find new solutions to finance the increasing demand for nursing home care and slow down the increase in expenditures. In this light, many European countries are currently considering reforms to increase efficiency in the provision of nursing home services. One popular restructuring policy is the transformation of public organizations into private...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013ECO002.
Public provision of institutionalized long term care will pose an increasing challenge to the sustainability of public finances. Population ageing has been recognized as one of the main factors driving health care costs increase in Europe and is expected to further raise the demand of nursing home care. To ensure a sustainable system in the next decades, policymakers need evidence on the...
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In: Journal of transport economics and policy, 2012, vol. 46, no. 1, p. 51-66
Efficiency measurement in public transport requires an adequate account of unobserved network characteristics that are typically modelled as factors separable from the production process. This paper proposes a panel data model that allows for non-separable firm-specific heterogeneity in an input distance function. The proposed model is applied to a sample of German and Swiss urban transit...
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In: Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology : an international journal for the geo-sciences, 2008, vol. 261, p. 127
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We analyze the technical efficiency of German and Swiss urban public transport companies by means of SFA. In transport networks we might face different network structures or complexities, not observed, but influencing the production process. The unobserved factors are typically modeled as separable factors. However, we argue that the entire production process is organized around different network...
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Switzerland is a federal State where policy decisions and implementation regarding long-term care regulation 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 nursing homes operating in Switzerland. Moreover, long-term care for the elderly is supplied by private for-profit nursing homes,...
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