Cross-Border Debt Offerings by Foreign Issuers into Switzerland - An Overview
La technologie habitée : la forme de vie globale des marchés financiers
This paper focuses on institutional currency transactions as a global lifeform that inhabits technology during waking hours, is distributed across the three major time zones, and is nonetheless centred in and on itself the lifeform constituted by the respective markets and participants in them. The...
La technologie habitée
Traders Engagement with Markets : A Postsocial Relationship
Zur Wissenschaftlichkeit von Messinstrumenten im Gesundheitswesen. Am Beispiel der Methode LEP : The Scientific Basis of Measuring Instruments in Public Health: The Case of the LEP® Method
In the health sector in general and in care in particular, interest in data on professional performance has been increasing for some time. In the development and use of relevant survey tools, the scientific knowledge of the survey tools is sometimes also asked. The contribution addresses this proble...
Transparency regimes and management by content in global organizations : the case of institutional currency trading
Argues that informational arrangement may make an organization less of a cumbersome machine by exteriorizing organizational processes on screen, making them transparent, witnessable and (reflexively) selfchanging.The platform organization addresses how some organizations - global investment banks en...
Impact of introducing a DRG reimbursement system in an acute impatient hostpital setting : a literature review
Background: Diagnosis related groups (DRG) are a reimbursement system used by hospitals in an increasing number of countries. However, there is ongoing debate on the effects and possible side-effects of this type of system. Objectives: To collect evidence about the impact of introducing a DRG reimbu...
Die Methode des Health Technology Assessment (HTA) im Rahmen der obligatorischen Unfallversicherung : das Beispiel der Hand-Transplantation
Die Hand-Transplantation ist eine bis heute umstrittene Therapieoption für Patienten mit Handamputationen. Weltweit wurden bisher einige dutzend Patienten mit einer solchen Transplantation behandelt. Die SUVA wurde von einem Unispital angefragt, ob eine Hand-Transplantation auch in der Schweiz durch...
Transparency regimes and management by content in global organizations
The Market as an Object of Attachment
Traders Engagement with Markets
Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets
Globale Mikrostrukturen der Weltgesellschaft
Globale Mikrostrukturen der Weltgesellschaft : die virtuellen Gesellschaften von Finanzmärkten
Der Artikel untersucht Integrationsmuster globaler Finanzmärkte auf der Basis von Daten, die auf den Handelsetagen des Interbank-Währungshandels globaler Banken erhoben wurden. Für diese Muster wird der Begriff Globale MikroStrukturen eingefuhrt. Wir argumentieren, dass Mechanismen der Interaktionso...
Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets
Using participant-observation data, interviews, and trading transcripts drawn from interbank currency trading in global investment banks, this article examines regular patterns of integration that characterize the global social system embedded in economic transactions. To interpret these patterns, w...
Cost-benefit analysis of road accident prevention measures in Switzerland from 1975 to 2007 : Report commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
The goal of this study is a cost benefit analysis (CBA) of road accident prevention measures realized in Switzerland in the period from 1975 to 2007. The actual number of road accident casualties is estimated by combining police report and accident insurer data. The societal costs of road accidents...
The health technology assessment of the compulsory accident insurance scheme of hand transplantation in Switzerland
Recently the decision-making committee of the compulsory Swiss accident insurance scheme needed to make a basic decision as to whether to fund hand transplantation under that scheme or not. A Health Technology Assessment was commissioned to inform decision-making and gain experience with applicabili...
The Market as an Object of Attachment : Exploring Postsocial Relations in Financial Markets
This paper rests on the assumption of an increased presence and relevance of object worlds in the social world. !t holds that this influx of object worlds coincides with changing patterns of human relatedness that can be gIossed by the notion postsocial forms. Postsocial forms include object-relatio...
Development of coverage with evidence development for medical technologies in Switzerland from 1996 to 2012
Objectives:The aim of t his study was to assess incidence, time frame, and outcome of “Coverage with Evidence Development” (CED) decisions in the Swiss Basic Health Insurance scheme. Methods: Analysis of all controversial medical technologies submitted to review by the Swiss Federal Office of Public...
Zur Wissenschaftlichkeit von Messinstrumenten im Gesundheitswesen. Am Beispiel der Methode LEP : The Scientific Basis of Measuring Instruments in Public Health: The Case of the LEP® Method
Im Gesundheitswesen im Allgemeinen und in der Pflege im Speziellen ist seit geraumer Zeit ein verstärktes Interesse an Daten über die professionellen Leistungen festzustellen. Bei der Entwicklung und dem Einsatz entsprechender Erhebungsinstrumente wird zuweilen auch nach deren Wissenschaftlichkeit g...
The impact of the AO foundation on fracture care : an evaluation of 60 years AO foundation
Objectives Sixty years ago, the Association of Osteosynthesis (AO) was founded with the aim to improve fracture treatment and has since grown into one of the largest medical associations worldwide. Aim of this study was to evaluate AO's impact on science, education, patient care and the MedTech busi...
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