This paper addresses the optimal scheduling of the liquidation of a portfolio using a new angle. Instead of focusing …

-HP (Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris), the French hospital network to which this body is attached. Methods: In 2002, a study … the significant impact of recommendations arising from a structure that is attached to a hospital network and the good …

Hospital heterogeneity is a major issue in defining a reimbursement system. If hospitals are heterogeneous, it is … reduced, because it is due to other unobserved sources of hospital heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply an econometric … approach to analyse hospital cost variability. We use a nested three-dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) in order to …

and distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. Using a sample of 5,681 stays observed in French public … and length of stays : (i) the effect of the adoption of new techniques by hospitals (between hospital diffusion) ; (ii …