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Analyzing Economic Market Interactions as Conflicts
(2004)Working PaperComplementing market-based policy instruments with conflict analysis approaches provides a wider understanding of market situations and allows to identify minimal requirements regarding needs, power and conflict dynamics. If these are not met, a market cannot be successfully introduced or a liberalization process implemented. Conflict analysis offers a language better suited to the concerns of people negatively affected ...Working Paper -
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Resource Rent taxation - a new perspective for the Swiss Hydropower Sector
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Cost Efficiency in the Swiss Gas Distribution Sector
(2004)CEPE Working PaperThis paper studies the cost structure of gas distribution utilities in Switzerland. Three stochastic frontier models are applied to a panel of 26 companies operating from 1996 to 2000. Efficiency is assumed to be constant over time. The analysis highlights the importance of output characteristics such as customer density and network size. The results suggest that the utilities could slightly reduce their operating costs by improving ...Working Paper -
The Forgotten Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation
(2004)OECD Working Paper ENV/EPOC/GSP(2003)16/FINALWorking Paper -
Economies of scale and cost efficiency in the postal services: empirical evidence from Switzerland
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Efficiency measurement in network industries: Application to Swiss railway companies
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Electromagnetic scattering using a plane wave H(curl) conforming finite element method
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Cost efficiency in regional bus companies: an application of alternative stochastic frontier model
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Regional differences in outpatient antibiotic consumption in Switzerland
(2004)QuadernoWorking Paper