Piacenza, Massimiliano; Turati, Gilberto; Vannoni, Davide - In: Economic Modelling 27 (2010) 4, pp. 881-890
In this paper we investigate the economic rationality of the bed downsizing process, characterising the hospital industry worldwide in the last decades, as a measure to control public health care expenditure. Considering a sample of Italian hospitals, we provide fresh evidence on the factor...