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Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Payment schemes and cost efficiency: evidence from Swiss public hospitals

Meyer, Stefan

In: International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2015, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 73-97

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Does prospective payment increase hospital (in)efficiency? Evidence from the Swiss hospital sector

Widmer, Philippe

In: The European Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 16, no. 4, p. 407-419

Haute école de gestion de Genève

The digital privacy paradox

Zurbirggen, Gina ; Markus, Gabor (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 76.

Over the past 10 years, numerous scandals involving personal data shocked the world. In 2013, the whistle blower Edward Snowden came forward and disclosed various worldwide government surveillance programs (Jill Lepore, 2019). In 2018 the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted, revealing that the so-called behavior changing agency had without consent harvested the personal data of millions of...

Université de Fribourg

Better roads, better off? : Evidence on improving roads in Tanzania

Dumas, Christelle ; Játiva, Ximena

(Working Papers SES ; 518)

Spatial isolation is considered as one of the main determinants of poverty. Therefore, many transport investments are undertaken with a stated objective of poverty reduction. In our paper, we evaluate a Tanzanian program that rehabilitated 2500km of major roads between 2008 and 2013. We deal with endogenous placement issues with a household fixed-effect strategy combined with a propensity score...

Université de Fribourg

Competing Institutional Logics and Paradoxical Universalism : School-to-Work Transitions of Disabled Youth in Switzerland and the United States

Tschanz, Christoph ; Powell, Justin J. W.

In: Social inclusion, 2020, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 155-167

Disablement is a complex social phenomenon in contemporary societies, reflected in disability policies oriented towards contrasting paradigms. Fraught with ambivalence, disability raises dilemmas of classification and targeted supports. Paradoxical universalism emphasizes that to achieve universality requires recognizing individual dis/abilities and particular contextual conditions and barriers...

Université de Fribourg

Patenting government funded innovations as a strategy to increase budget for academic vaccine R&D

Songane, Mario

(Working Papers SES ; 509)

Vaccine development is a lengthy, expensive and risky venture, with the research and development (R&D) process costing billions of dollars. The pre-clinical stage of vaccine R&D is largely performed by academic research institutions, then continued by the pharmaceutical industry though licensing agreements, taking the most promising candidates to the clinical testing stage. Governments play a...

Université de Fribourg

Paying the costs of reproduction

Flatt, Thomas

In: eLife, 2015, vol. 4, p. e09556

When a female fly mates it produces a hormone that increases the size of its midgut and enhances fat metabolism in order to provide the energy needed for reproduction.