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Garnishment of wage as a way for creditors to enforce payment by unwilling or insolvent debtors, while very common in Germany and Switzerland, is not very successful. Based on a dynamic model of debtor behaviour, this paper explores two alternatives of reform. One is to reduce the rate of garnishment, which at present amounts to 100 percent of the wage income exceeding a defined…

Systeme im politischen, ökonomischen und ökologischen Bereich sind zunehmend vernetzt und dynamisch, häufig jedoch intransparent. Herkömmliche Prüfverfahren und klassische Instrumente wie die Betriebs- und Erfolgsrechnung genügen den neuen Anforderungen nicht. Andrea Schenker-Wicki stellt neben bekannten Prüfungsverfahren - wie Revision, Controlling und Benchmarking - Verfahren der…

This paper analyzes the impact of capacity costs on bidding strategies of firms participating in procurement auctions. More efficient firms will invest in advance due to their high probability of winning the auction while less efficient bidders prefer to wait with their investments until the outcome of the auction is known. However, in equilibrium both types of firms include a…

This paper examines costs in the Swiss nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers because of the explosion of elderly care costs and the aging of the population. The paper considers estimation of a translog cost function employing panel data for a sample of 36 nonprofit nursing homes operating in Ticino, a canton of Switzerland, over the period 1993-1995. Using…