infonet-economy

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 compares the performance of transfer pricing and tidy cost allocations in a multiproduct firm in presence of output market competition and production externalities. In absence of competition, tidy cost allocations are creating inefficient allocations within the firm while transfer prices can always be adjusted to replicate the first best solution of the centralized firm.…

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…