Health Economics
Overview
Ongoing Research Projects
Past Research Projects
Selected Publications
Overview
In the field of health economics the chair of Prof. Dr. Peter Zweifel focuses on measuring preferences for social health care. Using the methods of discrete-choice, preferences of consumers (and general practitioners) toward new types of health insurance contracts were investigated in so-called "Discrete-Choice Experiments". A second emphasis is lying on the economic evaluation and international comparison of ambulant care. Modeling long-term insurance contracts builds a gateway to insurance economics.
Ongoing Research Projects
| Title: | Controlling Health Risk: The relative Contribution of Medicine |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); J. Schoder (Contact) |
| Funding: | Internal |
| Duration: | June 2007 - |
| Title: | Comparison of three Discrete-Choice Experiments to measure Willingness-to-Pay for Health Insurance |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); M. Sennhauser (Contact) |
| Funding: | Internal |
| Duration: | April 2007 - |
| Title: | Cost Savings Through Separated Apportioned Drug Dispensing by Mail |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); M. Sennhauser (Contact) |
| Funding: | Zur Rose AG |
| Duration: | October 2006 - |
| Title: | Guaranteed Renewability in Health Insurance: How much Frontloading? |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); P. Eugster (Contact) |
| Funding: | Internal |
| Duration: | January 2005 to December 2007 |
Past Research Projects
| Title: | Limitation of the Swiss Risk Adjustment Volume |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); P. Eugster (Contact); M. Sennhauser (Contact) |
| Funding: | santésuisse |
| Duration: | December 2006 to April 2007 |
| Title: | The Contribution to Managed Care to the Performance of Health Care Systems - Evidence from six Countries |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); J. Schoder (Contact) |
| Funding: | Vereinigung Pharmafirmen in der Schweiz (VIPS) |
| Duration: | November 2006 to May 2007 |
| Title: | Incentives |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); P. Eugster (Contact) |
| Funding: | SWICA |
| Duration: | March 2007 to May 2007 |
| Title: | Innovation Health Insurance: Chances and Risks |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); A. Brändle (Contact) |
| Funding: | GlaxoSmithKline |
| Duration: | January 2006 to December 2006 |
| Title: | New Forms of ambulant Care: What do Consumers want? Discrete-Choice Experiment to measure Preferences in Germany and the Netherlands. |
| Staff: | P. Zweifel (Project Leader); Dr. K. Becker; A. Brändle |
| Funding: | Bertelsmann Stiftung |
| Duration: | September 2005 to September 2006 |
Selected Publications
Working Papers
- Eugster, P. und Zweifel, P. (2005), Correlated Risks: A Conflict of Interest Between Insurers and Consumers and Its Resolution, SOI Working Paper No. 0604, University of Zurich.
- Zweifel, P und Becker, K. (2005), Cost Sharing in Health Insurance: An Instrument for Risk Selection?, SOI Working Paper No. 0513, University of Zurich.
Journal Articles
- Zweifel, P. (2001), Improved Risk Information, the Demand for Cigarettes, and Anti- Tobacco Policy, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 23 (3), 9-303.
- Lehmann, H. and P. Zweifel (2004), Innovation and Risk Selection in Deregulated Social Health Insurance, Journal of Health Economics, 23 (5), 997-1012.
- Zweifel, P., Telser, H. and Vaterlaus, S. (2006), Consumber Resistance Aganist Regulation: the Case of Health Care, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 29 (3), 319-332.
Books
- Breyer, F.; Zweifel, P. und Kifmann, M. (2005), Gesundheitsökonomie (Health Economics), 5th Edition, Heidelberg: Springer.