The aim of this report is to identify the possible effect of covering the highway A1 at Saint-Denis (near Paris) on housing prices. This covering induces a notable reduction of the noise nuisance and an improvement of the urban environment. In order to measure the effects from covering, we have...

[fre] Rationalisation de l'offre de soins en chirurgie. Réduction des surcapacités et réallocation sectorielle. . Dans cette étude, nous tentons d'apporter un éclairage quantitatif au débat sur la réorganisation de l'offre de soins chirurgicaux. Nous recourons à un modèle de...

This study estimates productivity gains and their distribution among inputs and outputs for American industries over the period 1987-2011 using the traditional surplus accounting method. Total Factor Productivity (TFP) change is traditionally defined as the growth rate of output minus the growth...

The duality between measures of economic and technical efficiency has been extensively studied in the productive efficiency analysis. This duality ensures a meaningful interpretation of technical efficiency as economic efficiency evaluated at the most favourable shadow prices. This paper...

In a paper published by Ma (1994) it was argued that the prospective payment system in the hospital industry was superior to the cost based reimbursement system to achieve both cost reduction and quality improvement ob jectives. In the analysis, it was assumed that quality and costs decisions...

The impact of the transition from a global budget payment to an activity-based financing system on public hospitals financial equilibrium is analyzed in this paper. To do so, we develop a theoretical model where patients? demand is related to joint decisions made by hospital managers and...

Hospital financing systems determine ma jor decisions made by physicians and managers within hospitals. This paper examines the impact of the transition toward an activity-based reimburse- ment system that has emerged in most OCDE countries. We consider two initial situations, one for a private...