Publications des institutions partenaires
Medical innovation: a challenge to society and insurance
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Vertical restraints: the case of multinationals
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
On the (in)efficiency of Swiss hospitals
The efficiency of hospitals is of interest to health insurers, government authorities and hospital management itself. However, econometric methods for determining (in)efficiency have severe drawbacks since hospitals are multiproduct firms and because the duality between production and cost functions cannot be assumed. In this work, non-parametric, deterministic data envelopment...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Comparing migrants to non-migrants: the case of Dutch migration to New Zealand
We analyse post-war Dutch migration to New Zealand. We document that history, reflect on analytical and econometric modelling and then combine a sample of Dutch migrants in New Zealand with a representative sample of Dutch in The Netherlands to estimate wage equations and the determinants of the migration decision. We use the results for ex post evaluation of the migration decision...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Migration policy in a small open economy with a dual labor market
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Pooling surveys in the estimation of income and price elasticities: an application to Tunisian households
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
A Free Trade Area of The Americas: Any Gains for the South?
Building on the experience of NAFTA, and assuming that rules of origin (RoO) negotiated under NAFTA are likely to resemble those that would be agreed upon in an FTAA, this paper discusses how different RoO criteria would affect different Southern partners in a multi-stage production setting. Next, we use a combination of parametric and non-parametric methods to estimate the costs of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Rapport sur l'évolution du corps intermédiaire au sein de l'Université de Genève entre 1992 et 2002
Notre étude sur l'évolution du corps intermédiaire de l'Université de Genève a été effectuée à partir de la base de données portant sur l'ensemble du personnel de l'Université mise à disposition par le Rectorat, grâce notamment à l'appui de Madame Ruth Wagner du service du personnel. Ces données, tirées des fichiers du personnel de l'Université,...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2003
Collective bargaining between decentralization and stability: a sectoral model explaining the Swiss experience during the 1990s
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
L'Europe dans le monde : la politique étrangère de l'Union européenne comme élément constitutif de l'identité européenne
Depuis le traité de Maastricht, signé en 1991, l'Union auropéenne s'est dotée d'un instrument nouveau, la Politique étrangère et de sécurité commune (PESC), dont le concept a ensuite été renforcé dans le traité d'Amsterdam, signé en 1997. La PESC, depuis le début des années 1990, est ainsi devenue un phénomène en gestation continue. L'objectif de cette thèse...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2003
L'Europe face à l'Autre : politiques migratoires et intégration européenne
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2003
Typologie et évaluation des interprétations de l’échec du processus de paix israélo-palestinien
Cet article tente d’expliciter pourquoi le processus de paix israélo-palestinien s’est effondré au cours du deuxième semestre 2000. L’approche méthodologique procède d’une double démarche. D’une part, classiquement, elle procède à un examen interne et externe rigoureux des sources disponibles, afin de trancher entre les différentes contradictions factuelles. D’autre part, elle dresse...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Marktwertorientierte Unternehmensführung: Anreiz- und Kommunikationsaspekte
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2003
Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy: Austria after the fall of the Iron Curtain
We set up a model, in which firms in a small industrialized country outsource part of their production to a foreign economy, which is rich in low-skilled labour. We analyse, how a decline in trade costs affects outsourcing activities and the production structure in the small economy. A stimulation of cross-border outsourcing raises wage dispersion and, if labour markets are unionized...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Vertical Integration and Distance to Frontier
We construct a model where the equilibrium organization of firms changes as an economy approaches the world technology frontier. In vertically integrated firms, owners (managers) have to spend time both on production and innovation activities, and this creates managerial overload, and discourages innovation. Outsourcing of some production activities mitigates the managerial overload...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
On market concentration and international outsourcing
We set up a partial equilibrium model of Cournot competition, where firms can strategically choose their outsourcing intensity. This decision is based on a trade-off between lower marginal production costs and higher fixed costs. In this model, a lower number of identical firms leads to higher market concentration and higher outsourcing activities. The theoretical hypothesis of a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Dynamic political choice in macroeconomics
We analyze positive theories of redistribution, social insurance and public good provision in a dynamic macroeconomic framework. Political outcomes are determined via repeated voting and driven by a conflict of interests between agents. Voters and politicians rationally forecast the impact of current political choices on future political and economic outcomes. The theory is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
Procurement auctions and unit-price contracts
In competitive procurement auctions, bids often have the form of unit-price contracts (UPCs). We show that optimal bidding behavior in UPC auctions is typically non-monotonic, and therefore may lead to inefficient allocations. However, UPC auctions may still be desirable for the buyer when compared to efficient mechanisms such as the first-price auction. In a UPC auction, low types...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
A short and intuitive proof of Marshall's rule
When the price of an input factor to a production process increases, then the optimal output level declines and the input is substituted by other factors. Marshall's rule is a formula that determines the own-price elasticity for one factor as a weighted sum of the elasticities of output market demand and factor substitution. This note offers a proof for Marshall's rule that...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2003
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