Puig-Junoy, Jaume; Ortún, Vicente - In: Health Economics 13 (2004) 12, pp. 1149-1165
The principal aim of this paper is to estimate a stochastic frontier cost function and an inefficiency effects model in the analysis of the primary health-care services purchased by the public authority and supplied by 180 providers in 1996 in Catalonia. The evidence from our sample does not...