Cellini, Roberto; Pignataro, Giacomo; Rizzo, Ilde - In: International Tax and Public Finance 7 (2000) 4, pp. 503-519
In this paper we look at the Italian NationalHealth System as a case study, in order to investigate whethercompetition exerts positive effects on the efficiency of hospitals.Using the DEA technique we measure the efficiency of Italianhospital production; secondly, we take a regression...