patients within a predetermined period. However, this is not a simple mechanism that identi…es the hospital with the lowest … 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 …

indirect interventions, while neither the number of interventions nor the number of patients where found to be significant. The …

Herring hypothesis, i.e., that hospital expenditures are driven by the occurrence of mortal illnesses, and not patients’ age …, forms the basis of the study. The data applied in the analysis are from a complete registry of in-patient hospital … expenditures in Norway from the years 1998-2009. Since data registration is compulsory and all hospital admissions are recorded …

In a period where decentralisation seemed to be the prominent trend, Norway in 2002 chose to re-centralise the hospital … the hospital reform has improved hospital productivity using the other four major Nordic countries as controls. Hospital … the hospital reform from the effects of other structural, financial and organizational variables. A fixed hospital effect …