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Essays on outpatient antibiotic consumption

Gonzalez Ortiz, Laura Guadalupe ; Filippini, Massimo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011 ; 2011ECO011.

Inappropriate use of antibiotic leads to the development of bacterial resistance, which undermines antibiotic effectiveness and increases the cost for society. The aim of this thesis is to investigate economic aspects of antibiotic consumption in the community. The research is divided in three essays. In the first essay we focus on determinants of antibiotic use in Italy and the spillover...

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Essays on the cost structure of nonprofit nursing homes

Di Giorgio, Laura ; Filippini, Massimo (Dir.)

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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Essays on the demand for child care services

Medici, Diego ; Filippini, Massimo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011 ; 2011ECO009.

In Switzerland, as in many developed countries, a growing number of parents face a pertinent challenge in trying to reconcile family and work commitments. Parents working full-time or part-time may purchase child care services (such as school-meal and after-school services) provided at school or by other professionals, while others directly provide personal care to their children until school...

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Cost efficiency and regulation of Slovenian water distribution utilities : an application of stochastic frontier methods

Zoric, Jelena ; Filippini, Massimo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2006 ; 2006ECO003.

Over the last two decades it has become increasingly important to promote the efficiency and improve the performance of natural monopolies operating within network industries. In line with this, different regulatory approaches have been designed aiming at preventing the abuse of monopoly power and at the same time enhancing the performance of regulated firms. The most widely adopted...

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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...