The strategy currently adopted in France to deal with the ever-growing health expenditures is one of freezing compulsory deductions and broadening the scope of complementary insurance, while at the same time reaffirming that such insurance is optional. But individual freedom to take out...

The purpose of this paper is to study hospital costs in the event of introduction of a Prospective Payment System in France. We use a nested three dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) to identify hospital unobservable heterogeneity and a transitory moral hazard component of cost...

This work takes the perspectives of economics and public health to study issues related to the quality of hospital care.The first chapter introduces the concept of quality of care in economics and public health. We show that the two fields use similar definitions of the concept but explore...

B. Dormont entend combattre l'idée selon laquelle les dépenses de santé vont croître du fait du vieillissement de la population. L'augmentation serait due, d'après elle, aux changements de pratiques dans la consommation des soins, laquelle tient en partie aux innovations médicales, ce qui...

Cet article étudie les coûts des hôpitaux publics français dans la perspective d'une réforme de la tarification. Des données à trois dimensions hôpital-séjour-année permettent d'identifier l'hétérogénéité non observée des hôpitaux et la composante de la variabilité du coût...

This paper offers an integrated view of the relationships between health spending, medical innovation, health status, growth and welfare. Health spending triggers technological progress, which is a potential source of better outcomes in terms of longevity and quality of life, a direct source of...

This paper offers an integrated view of the relationships between health spending, medical innovation, health status, growth and welfare. Health spending triggers technological progress, which is a potential source of better outcomes in terms of longevity and quality of life, a direct source of...

In many areas of health care financing, there is controversy over the sources of cost variability and about the respective roles of inefficiency versus legitimate heterogeneity. This paper proposes a payment system that creates incentives to increase hospital efficiency when hospitals are...

L’efficacité-coût des EHPAD en France est étudiée en appliquant plusieurs méthodes d’analyse de frontière : estimation sur données en coupe par maximisation de vraisemblance et modèle de données de panel à erreurs composées. La robustesse des résultats est testée par comparaison...