Marc Bauer - The Collector

Georg Bauer

Reply to Bauer and Goff.

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the letter by Bauer and colleagues commenting on the need for cost-justification of new diagnostic tests in the field of infectious diseases [1], such as the recently US Food and Drug Administration–approved T2Candida panel for diagnosis of candidemia [2]. Indeed, the new alternatives for disease diagnosis [3] contribute to the exponential rise of healthcare ...

Christian Bauer ; Ronald B .

We study the optimal combination of corporate tax rate and tax base in a model of a small open economy with heterogeneous firms. We show that it is optimal for the small country’s government to effectively subsidize capital inputs by granting a tax allowance in excess of the true costs of capital. Economic integration reduces the optimal capital subsidy and drives low-productivity firms from th...

Search Engines and Privacy Marc Roessler marc

This paper analyzes the impact of using search engines on the user's privacy. Several privacy related issues were found, such as search engines leaking the query string to advertising companies or sharing user identifiers with other sites. This paper will show the way this is accomplished as well as possible countermeasures to be taken by the user to preserve her privacy.

The scientific work of Peter Bauer.

This June, Peter Bauer – chief editor of Biometrical Journal from 2000–2003 and member of the editorial board since 1996 – celebrated his 65th birthday. Peter Bauer became known as one of the originators of the “adaptive designs”, a field of research that recently gained considerable popularity, not only among academia but likewise among regulatory bodies and the pharmaceutical industry. It is ...