the probability of not having enough capacity to satisfy demand, and since demand is uncertain, hospitals have to build … excess capacity and incur the associated costs. Using panel data comprising information for 43 Portuguese public hospitals … (outputs, the price of inputs, some of the hospitals’ organizational characteristics) and an additional term measuring the …

acute admission hospitals. Within the next 5–10 years, the number of public hospitals offering acute admission will be … reduced from 35 to approximately 20 larger hospitals. As the administrative data may be biased during the middle of a … restructuring process our objective was to analyze whether the configuration of Danish public hospitals was subject to economies of …