Almeida, Alvaro; Cima, Joana - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
the probability of not having enough capacity to satisfy demand, hospitals have to build excess capacity since demand is … uncertain, and incur on the associated costs. Using panel data that comprises information for 43 Portuguese NHS hospitals for … (outputs, the price of inputs, some of the hospitals’ organizational characteristics) and an additional term measuring the …