Dormont, Brigitte; Milcent, Carine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004
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 …