Purpose – Because of large time lags between the production decision, completion and sale of output, any uncertainty during the process of production, such as bad weather, disease or financial crisis, can affect the prices within food markets systematically. Therefore, the paper aims to...

<Para ID="Par1">This paper aims at analysing the impact of prospective payment schemes on cost efficiency of acute care hospitals in Switzerland. We study a panel of 121 public hospitals subject to one of four payment schemes. While several hospitals are still reimbursed on a per diem basis for the treatment of...</para>

Stefan Meyer untersucht in diesem Buch empirisch standardisierte Terminhandelsstrategien auf ihre Eignung zur Reduzierung des systematischen Portfoliorisikos. Hierfür analysiert er Kurs-, Zins- und Volatilitätsdaten während der zwölf größten Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrisen zwischen 1987 und...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the structural problem in the Chinese dairy sector. There exists a large number of low‐efficiency, small‐scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps increasing, which is a possible driving force behind the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete dynamic demand system – dynamic linear expenditure system-linear approximate dynamic almost ideal demand system (DLES-LA/DAIDS), which pushes forward the techniques of demand...