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Social Interaction in Patients'�Hospital Choice: Evidences from Italy
Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa; Vittadini, Giorgio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper we study the influence of social interaction on patients' hospital choice and its relationship with quality delivered by hospitals, using Italian data. We explore the impact on individual choices of a set of variables such as travel distance, individual- and hospital-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567958
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Gravity for Health: an Application to State Mental Hospital Admissions in Texas
de Mello-Sampayo, Felipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
residential areas to health supplier regions. This approach explicitly acknowledges the interdependence of the patient flows … between a set of alternative health supplier regions. This competing-destinations based approach may be implemented as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110818
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Consumer Learning and Heterogeneity: Dynamics of Demand for Prescription Drugs after Patent Expiration
Ching, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper investigates whether aggregate consumer learning together with consumer heterogeneity in price sensitivity could explain why (i) there is a slow diffusion of generic drugs into the market, and (ii) brand-name originators keep increasing their prices over time even after the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622024
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Non-Economic and Economic Factors in the Decision to Obtain a Pap Smear: The Case of Women Residents in the State of Florida
Alexander, Gigi; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this first-time-ever such study of the adult female population in the state of Florida, the percentage of the women 18 to 44 years of age within each county in the state of Florida in 2007 who had received a Pap smear during the past year was a decreasing function of the percentage of women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107913
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Vulnerability to poverty in Italy
Amendola, Nicola; rossi, mariacristina; Vecchi, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The article empirically analyses the phenomenon of vulnerability to poverty – meant as an individual’s likelihood of becoming poor in the future. On the basis of studies conducted by the Italian Institute of Statistics on the consumption of Italian households in the years 1985-2001 and whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258852
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How dark is the night: the consumers’ mood coping with the crisis.Evidences from ISAE Consumer Survey
Gabriele, Stefania; Martelli, Bianca Maria; Raitano, Michele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Since 2008 the global economy, following also the financial crisis, is facing a severe decline in economic activity and the economic estimates concerning the first quarter 2009 are even worse. While in the major industrialized economies Consumers Confidence Indicators (CCI) show common negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079332
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Variabilité spatiale des prix hédoniques des caractéristiques du logement: une nouvelle méthode de calcul des indices de prix spatiaux
Filali, Radhouane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Estimation of spatial housing price indices requires a housing market segmentation into local sub-markets. In this paper, we use geographically weighted regression model (GWR) to take account for spatial heterogeneity of housing attribute marginal prices. Estimated marginal prices are then used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980399
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Performance and Congestion Analysis of the Portuguese Hospital Services
Simões, Pedro; Cunha Marques, Rui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
influence of the congestion effect on efficiency. The heavy burden of the health sector on the state budget brings about the …The health care services have been characterised by a growing demand by the citizens leading to the need of more and … interest of research over its efficiency. This paper aims to assess the performance of the Portuguese hospitals and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108462
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Technical efficiency of hospital psychiatric care in Bulgaria – assessment using Data Envelopment Analysis
Kundurjiev, T.; Salchev, Petko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The present article deals with the theme of efficiency in healthcare and especially technical efficiency in psyaciatric … technical efficiency for each group. We present a possible assesment method, which provides an opportunity for improving … efficiency in the sector. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839511
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The Effect of Activity-Based Financing on Hospital Efficiency: A Panel Data Analysis of DEA Efficiency Scores 1992-2000
Biorn, Erik; Hagen, Terje P.; Iversen, Tor; Magnussen, Jon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
efficiency. We predict that hospital efficiency will increase because the benefit from cost-reducing efforts in terms of number … from the period 1992-2000. Efficiency indicators are estimated by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA) with multiple … inputs and outputs. Using a variety of econometric methods, we find that the introduction of ABF has improved efficiency when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623311