Previous studies indicate that Finnish hospitals have significantly higher productivity than in the other Nordic … hospitals in the Nordic countries. We find that there are small differences in scale and technical efficiency between countries …

productivity measures are obtained using data envelopment analysis (DEA) on a comparable dataset of 728 Nordic hospitals in the …

the patients are auctioned out to the hospitals. Our aim is to characterize principles as to how such an auction should be … designed. In the case of elective treatment, health authorities thus organize a competition between hospitals. The hospital … must pay a penalty if it defaults), high cost hospitals typically have larger default risks than low costs hospitals. …

method I use is standard OLS. I also investigate possible cross-effects between hospitals’ readmission rates and age and look … alternative estimation method that allows for stronger correlation between patients within hospitals but assumes independence … between patients at different hospitals. The estimations are done using the statistical package StataSE 8. Using a simple …