countries. This paper provides evidence of significant differences in the cross-country level of efficiency of health care … efficiency levels of health care systems. The findings are, however, highly sensitive to the efficiency-estimation methodology …The containment of health care expenditure is one of the major challenges facing public policymakers in the developed …

of a firm's performance. Two alternative definitions of efficiency are proposed: relative productivity and profitability … not a determinant of efficiency and that other factors, in particular, the degree of competition, seem to have a positive …