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Concurrence, prix et qualité de la prise en charge en EHPAD en France : Analyses micro-économétriques
Martin, Cécile - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
High prices and insufficient quality of care are observed in nursing homes in France. Reforms are currently under discussion, but governments are facing a dilemma : any measure of price cut is likely to affect quality and any improvement in quality would probably be inflationary. This work...
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Analysis of hospital technical efficiency in China: Effect of health insurance reform
Hu, Hsin-Hui; Qi, Qinghui; Yang, Chih-Hai - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 4, pp. 865-877
health insurance reform of New Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) impacts on efficiency. Adopting the non …This paper investigates the regional hospital efficiency in China during the 2002–2008 period, especially for how the … industry, empirical estimates indicate that hospital efficiency is moderate that increased slightly from 0.6777 to 0 …
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Preconditions for efficiency and affordability in competitive healthcare markets: Are they fulfilled in Belgium, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and Switzerland?
de Ven, Wynand P.M.M. van; Beck, Konstantin; Buchner, … - In: Health Policy 109 (2013) 3, pp. 226-245
paper is to identify the most important preconditions for achieving efficiency and affordability under regulated competition …
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Efficiency of Hospitals in the Czech Republic
Procházková, Jana; Šťastná, Lenka - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2011
The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …
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Efficiency of Hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional Efficiency Approach
Stastna, Lenka Stastna (Gregorova); Votapkova … - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2014
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. E …
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The Effect of Activity-Based Financing on Hospital Efficiency: A Panel Data Analysis of DEA Efficiency Scores 1992-2000
Biorn, Erik; Hagen, Terje P.; Iversen, Tor; Magnussen, Jon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
efficiency. We predict that hospital efficiency will increase because the benefit from cost-reducing efforts in terms of number … from the period 1992-2000. Efficiency indicators are estimated by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA) with multiple … inputs and outputs. Using a variety of econometric methods, we find that the introduction of ABF has improved efficiency when …
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Identification and Estimation of Outcome Response with Heterogeneous Treatment Externalities
Patacchini, Eleonora; Arduini, Tiziano; Rainone, Edoardo - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2014
This paper studies the identification and estimation of treatment response with heterogeneous spillovers in a network model. We generalize the standard linear-in-means model to allow for multiple groups with between and within-group interactions. We provide a set of identification conditions of...
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ESTIMATING TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO EU INDUSTRIES
Kokkinou, Aikaterini - In: Regional Science Inquiry 2 (2010) 2, pp. 95-104
This paper estimates, incorporating a Transcendental Logarithmic Production Function, the technical efficiency level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658743
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ESTIMATING TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO EU INDUSTRIES
Kokkinou, Aikaterini - In: Regional Science Inquiry II (2010) 2, pp. 95-104
This paper estimates, incorporating a Transcendental Logarithmic Production Function, the technical efficiency level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659293
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Threshold Regression with Endogeneity
Yu, Ping; Phillips, Peter C.B. - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2014
and improving efficiency for the threshold point. Specification tests are developed to test for the presence of …
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