this. However, in hospitals, for example, consumption of a large number of inputs frequently has not corresponded to the … interest of research over its efficiency. This paper aims to assess the performance of the Portuguese hospitals and … hospitals for the year 2005 and more than half of them were found to be congested. …

future economic growth. We believe that apart from banks, stress tests can be conducted on hospitals as well and will have … their merit. The proposed methodology for risk assessment in hospitals is only one of many possible solutions and has …

For-profit hospitals in California contract out services much more intensely than either public hospitals or private … nonprofit hospitals. To explain why, we build a model in which the outsourcing decision is a trade-off between net revenues and … predictions in a panel of California hospitals, finding evidence for each. These results suggest that a model of public or …