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Università della Svizzera italiana

When innovation doesn't rhyme with agglomeration : the case of peripheral Swiss regions

Bossi, Fabio ; Maggi, Rico (Dir.) ; Meneguzzo, Marco (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2006 ; 2006ECO002.

This work deals with the economic dimension of two multi-disciplinary phenomena: innovation and the absence of agglomeration. Their common scientific field is certainly expressed by the so-called regional economy, which joins the economic science with other non economic disciplines such as geography, sociology and institutionalism. While the literature about agglomeration's positive effects on...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Health care expenditure and decentralization : a national and international empirical analysis for OECD countries

Mosca, Ilaria ; Filippini, Massimo (Dir.) ; Meneguzzo, Marco (Codir.) ; Crivelli, Luca (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2005 ; 2005ECO002.

The consistent rise in health care expenditure in these last years has attracted a lot of attention by academics, policy makers, and politicians. The quota of GDP spent on health has become considerably high in many OECD countries and pundits searched for possible solutions to increase the efficiency of the health care sector and to contain waste. Decentralization has been perceived as a solution...

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