hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight various effects on the shifts in the overall distribution of the costs … and length of stays : (i) the effect of the adoption of new techniques by hospitals (between hospital diffusion) ; (ii …) the effect of the diffusion of technological progress within hospitals ; (iii) the effect of changes in patients …

In mid-2010, France will open market competition to online gambling and casinos. The market is opening as European law …-based competition versus price-oriented competition, especially to contain addictive behaviours, and more specifically, money laundering …

increase productivity, flexibility and automation. Moreover, retail chains also seek to lower prices and impose just …

supply of skill). Third, OC leads to greater productivity increases in establishments with larger initial skill endowments …

prospective payments for hospitals. However, the financing of hospitals in some European countries is still based on the so …-called ‘global budget’ approach. Therefore, results of pharmacoeconomic studies involving hospitals financed by the ‘global … line with the national financing system of the hospitals involved. …

the introduction of competition between these two sectors. The purpose of this paper is to compare the productivity of … public and private hospitals in France. We try to assess the respective impacts, on productivity differences, of differences … frontier approach combined with hospitals fixed effects. We find that the lower productivity of public hospitals is not …