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Peter Zweifel is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans several intersecting fields primarily within economics, social sciences, and healthcare. Zweifel has contributed extensively to topics related to insurance and financial risk management, healthcare policy and management, and decision-making within behavioral economics.

The scientist's research covers a broad spectrum of scholarly topics, including:

  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Zweifel's main fields of study involve:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of particular focus include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Health Professions
  • Demography
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Accounting

The researcher has published across various notable venues, with frequent publications in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Economic Affairs
  • Journal of risk and financial management
  • Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik

Zweifel's notable recent papers include:

  • "A framework for the evaluation of InsurTech" (2020), Risk Management and Insurance Review
  • "Mental health: The burden of social stigma" (2021), The International Journal of Health Planning and Management
  • "Innovation in health care through information technology (IT): The role of incentives" (2021), Social Science & Medicine
  • "Innovation in long-term care insurance: Joint contracts for mitigating relational moral hazard" (2020), Insurance Mathematics and Economics
  • "Bridging the gap between risk and uncertainty in insurance" (2021), The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice

Among collaborators, Zweifel frequently coauthors with:

  • Roland Eisen
  • David L. Eckles
  • Annette Hofmann
  • Barbara Fischer
  • Harry Telser

Additionally, Zweifel has a published book titled "Insurance Economics" released by Springer International Publishing in 2021, which has received citations within the field.

Best Publications

  • Ageing of population and health care expenditure: a red herring?

    Peter Zweifel;Stefan Felder;Markus Meiers

  • Moral Hazard and Consumer Incentives in Health Care

    Peter Zweifel;Willard G. Manning

  • Population ageing and health care expenditure: a school of ‘red herrings’?

    Andreas Werblow;Stefan Felder;Peter Zweifel

  • Population ageing and health care expenditure: new evidence on the "red herring"

    Peter Zweifel;Stefan Felder;Andreas Werblow

  • Economic Theory of Choice and the Preference Reversal Phenomenon: A Reexamination

    Werner W. Pommerehne;Friedrich Schneider;Peter Zweifel

  • Experimental measurement of preferences in health and healthcare using best-worst scaling: an overview

    Axel C. Mühlbacher;Anika Kaczynski;Peter Zweifel;F. Reed Johnson

  • Private Health Insurance In Developing Countries

    Mark V. Pauly;Peter Zweifel;Richard M. Scheffler;Alexander S. Preker

  • Validity of Discrete-Choice Experiments - Evidence for Health Risk Reduction

    Harry Telser;Peter Zweifel

  • Measuring Willingness-To-Pay for Risk Reduction: An Application of Conjoint Analysis

    Harry Telser;Peter Zweifel

  • Do red herrings swim in circles? Controlling for the endogeneity of time to death.

    Stefan Felder;Andreas Werblow;Peter Zweifel

  • Is the Welfare State Sustainable? Experimental Evidence on Citizens' Preferences for Redistribution

    Ilja Neustadt;Peter Zweifel

  • Consumer Resistance Against Regulation: The Case of Health Care

    Peter Zweifel;Harry Telser;Stephan Vaterlaus

  • Health economics worldwide

    Robert L. Ohsfeldt;Peter Zweifel;H. E. Frech

  • Measuring and comparing the (in)efficiency of German and Swiss hospitals.

    Lukas Steinmann;Gunnar Dittrich;Alexander Karmann;Peter Zweifel

  • Long-Term Care Insurance in a Two-Generation Model

    Peter Zweifel;Wolfram Strüwe

  • Price regulation of drugs: Lessons from Germany

    Peter Zweifel;Luca Crivelli

  • Innovation and risk selection in deregulated social health insurance.

    Hansjörg Lehmann;Peter Zweifel

  • On the (in)efficiency of Swiss hospitals

    Lukas Steinmann;Peter Zweifel

  • Long-term care insurance and bequests as instruments for shaping intergenerational relationships

    Peter Zweifel;Wolfram Strüwe

  • The Grossman model after 40 years

    Peter Zweifel

  • Promoting Renewable Electricity Generation in Imperfect Markets: Price vs. Quantity Policies

    Reinhard Madlener;Reinhard Madlener;Ilja Neustadt;Peter Zweifel

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Drummond
Michael Drummond University of York
F. Reed Johnson
F. Reed Johnson Duke University
Richard M. Scheffler
Richard M. Scheffler University of California, Berkeley
Willard G. Manning
Willard G. Manning University of Chicago
Robert L. Ohsfeldt
Robert L. Ohsfeldt Texas A&M University
Jörg Sydow
Jörg Sydow Freie Universität Berlin

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