Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Turati, Gilberto; Zago, Angelo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2004
In this paper we attempt to identify behavioral differences between public and private not-forprofit hospitals, by using the opportunity of the introduction of the DRG-based payment system in the Italian NHS during the second half of the Nineties. We estimate the technical efficiency of a sample...