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. …

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are designed to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare through enhanced … information sharing between disparate health entities. The objective of this study is to systematically examine the impact of HIE … use in emergency departments (EDs) on quality and efficiency of medical care. We focus on two dimensions of healthcare …

efficiency. Homotheticity is a useful restriction or assumption but data rarely satisfy testable conditions. To overcome this … problem, this article provides a way to estimate homothetic efficiency of consumption choices by consumers. The basic … efficiency index suggested is similar to Afriat’s (1972) efficiency index and Varian’s (1993) violation index. It generalises …

We provide a nonparametric revealed preference approach to demand analysis based on homothetic efficiency … homothetic efficiency of consumption choices. It generalises Heufer's (2013) two-dimensional concept to arbitrary dimensions and …

Through an analysis of medical malpractice votes, a measure of economic efficiency was found to be a statistically … ideology reflect normative characteristics of a representative, while economic efficiency considers maximization of net … benefits of policy formulation and is positive. Including economic efficiency in voting models offers insight as to the type of …