Dr. Andreas Kohler PhD in Economics

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer and Co-Manager Team Health Economic Research

Focus

Health Economics, International Economics, statistics, econometrics, data science

Projects

• Cost and Benefits of Physiotherapy / Team member / Project ongoing
• Health data Switzerland / Team member / Project ongoing
• Netzwerk Gesundheitsökonomie Winterthur (NGW): Ambulantes Monitoring / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Wirkungsanalyse zum Risikoausgleich mit pharmazeutischen Kostengruppen (PCG) / Team member / Project completed
• KT Genf Zuckersteuer / Project leader / Project completed
• Klassifikation und Kodierung der Diagnosen und Prozeduren in der ambulanten Gesundheitsversorgung / Team member / Project completed
• Sustainability and Resilience in the Swiss Health System / Team member / Project completed
• Evaluation der Ärzt:innen-Apotheker:innen-Qualitätszirkel / Team member / Project completed
• Die Wirkung von Tabaksteuern – Die Schweiz im europäischen Ländervergleich / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Osteoarthritis in Switzerland: prevalence, treatment and costs / Team member / Project completed
• Development of dynamic map of the supply region Winterthur / Deputy project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Kohler, Andreas; Vinci, Linda; Mattli, Renato,

  2023.

  Cross-country and panel data estimates of the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes in Europe.

  BMJ Open.

  13(6).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069970

• Wunderlich, Anne C.; Kohler, Andreas,

  2022.

  Data of national dishes in the developed and developing countries in the world : their similarity and trade flows.

  Data.

  7(11).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/data7110142

• Wunderlich, Anne C.; Kohler, Andreas,

  2022.

  The impact of agricultural subsidies on obesity.

  Journal of Agriculture and Food Research.

  10(100439).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2022.100439

• Kohler, Andreas; Wunderlich, Anne,

  2021.

  How migrants’ food tastes shape international agro-food trade.

  Applied Economics Letters.

  29(5), pp. 469-476.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1912695

• Mack, Gabriele; Kohler, Andreas; Heitkämper, Katja; El-Benni, Nadja,

  2019.

  Determinants of the perceived administrative transaction costs caused by the uptake of an agri-environmental program.

  Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

  62(10), pp. 1802-1819.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1515311

• Kohler, Andreas,

  2021.

  Thank you for smoking! : how loopholes create big rents for big tobacco [poster].

  In:

  iHEA 2021 World Congress on Health Economics, virtual, 12-15 July 2021.

• Kohler, Andreas,

  2023.

  Der perfekte Sturm : ist die Abschaffung der obligatorischen Krankenversicherung eine gute Idee?.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2023/09/13/der-perfekte-sturm-ist-die-abschaffung-der-obligatorischen-krankenversicherung-eine-gute-idee/

• Wieser, Simon; Stucki, Michael; Kohler, Andreas; Lenzin, Golda; Schärer, Xavier,

  2023.

  Introduction of comprehensive coding of diagnoses in outpatient care in Switzerland : benefits and challenges [poster].

  In:

  Swiss Public Health Conference, Lausanne, Schweiz, 12.-13. September 2023.

• Wieser, Simon; Stucki, Michael; Kohler, Andreas; Lenzin, Golda; Schärer, Xavier,

  2023.

  Grundlagenbericht zur Klassifikation und Kodierung der Diagnosen und Prozeduren in der ambulanten Gesundheitsversorgung.

  Neuchâtel:

  Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-27894

• Kohler, Andreas; Maurer, Matthias; Thommen, Christoph,

  2022.

  (Wie) gelingt die Kostendämpfung?.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2022/09/22/wie-gelingt-die-kostendaempfung/

• Kohler, Andreas; Stucki, Michael,

  2022.

  Steigende Kosten für die Physiotherapie – wirklich ein Grund zur Panik? : eine Frage des Massstabs.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2022/02/17/steigende-kosten-fuer-die-physiotherapie-wirklich-ein-grund-zur-panik-eine-frage-des-massstabs/

• Maurer, Matthias; Wieser, Simon; Kohler, Andreas; Thommen, Christoph,

  2022.

  Partnership for health system sustainability and resilience (PHSSR) : sustainability and resilience in the Swiss health system.

  LSE Consulting.

  Available from: https://www.phssr.org/findings

• Vinci, Linda; Mattli, Renato; Kohler, Andreas,

  2021.

  Die Wirkung von Tabaksteuern : die Schweiz im europäischen Ländervergleich.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2021/12/08/die-wirkung-von-tabaksteuern-die-schweiz-im-europaeischen-laendervergleich/

• Dosch, Stephanie; Kohler, Andreas,

  2021.

  Könnten mit einem Referenzpreissystem für Medikamente die Gesundheitskosten gesenkt werden?.

  Gesundheitsökonomie @ ZHAW.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/gesundheitsoekonomie/2021/09/20/koennten-mit-einem-referenzpreissystem-fuer-medikamente-die-gesundheitskosten-gesenkt-werden/

• Kohler, Andreas; Mattli, Renato; Vinci, Linda,

  2021.

  Die Wirkung von Tabaksteuern : die Schweiz im europäischen Ländervergleich.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://www.lungenliga.ch/sites/default/files/documents/wirkung_von_tabaksteuern_schlussbericht.pdf

• Stucki, Michael; Kohler, Andreas; Boes, Stefan,

  2022.

  Identifying diseases in claims data using a machine learning approach : a case from Switzerland.

  In:

  13th EuHEA Conference, Oslo, Norway, 5-8 July 2022.

• Stucki, Michael; Kohler, Andreas; Boes, Stefan,

  2022.

  Identifying diseases in claims data using a machine learning approach : a case from Switzerland.

  In:

  14. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), Hamburg, Deutschland, 28.-29. März 2022.

• Kaiser, Boris; Kohler, Andreas; Schmid, Christian P. R.,

  2022.

  The role of incomplete administrative health care data : the case of a coverage expansion in Switzerland.

  In:

  14. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), Hamburg, Deutschland, 28.-29. März 2022.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Mack, Gabriele; Kohler, Andreas, 2018. Short- and long-run policy evaluation: support for grassland-based milk production in Switzerland. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70(1).
• Kohler, Andreas, Ferjani, Ali, 2018. Exchange Rate Effects: A Case Study of the Export Performance of the Swiss Agriculture and Food Sector. The World Economy, 41(2).
• Foellmi, Reto; Hanslin Grossmann, Sandra; Kohler, Andreas, 2018. A Dynamic North-South Model of Demand-Induced Product Cycles. Journal of International Economics, 110.
• Ritzel, Christian; Kohler, Andreas, 2017. Protectionism, how stupid is this? The causal effect of free trade for the world's poorest countries: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Switzerland. Journal of Policy Modeling, 39(6).

Other publications

Cross-country and panel data estimates of the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes in Europe

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