Piacenza, Massimiliano; Turati, Gilberto; Vannoni, Davide - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2007
In this paper we investigate the economic rationality of the bed downsizing process characterising the hospital industry worldwide in the last decades, providing new evidence on the factor substitutability in the production of hospital services. We consider a sample of Italian regional producers...