efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … insignificant on the productive efficiency of health centres. … contrast to earlier studies, this paper approaches the economies of scale issue by analysing the break-ups of municipal health …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. -- Efficiency ; hospitals ; stochastic frontier analysis …

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question … how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor … hospitals. -- Hospital efficiency ; ownership ; stochastic frontier analysis ; profit function …

efficiently. - economic efficiency in health care ; data envelopment analysis ; Tobit regression …The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local county councils. During recent years … who has a large proportion of health care performed by alternative producers are more economically efficient than other …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals …

Medicaid managed care and contains several provisions to strengthen delivery and payment reforms and improve efficiency and … quality of care. Accordingly, this research examines the quality of Medicaid managed care and the effect of MLR and efficiency …. The results show that, medical services efficiency has an insignificant (but negative) effect on the quality of care …

Typically, the error term in stochastic frontier models is assumed to be positively skewed; however, efficiency scores … all model parameters and efficiency scores can be estimated consistently regardless of positive or negative inefficiency …