, and determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and DEA- based Malmquist … hospitals. Tobit model used to examine the determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. The DEA Variable Returns to … 2007/08 and 2012/13, respectively. On average, Malmquist Total Factor Productivity (MTFP) of the hospitals decreased by 3 …

productivity measures are obtained using data envelopment analysis (DEA) on a comparable dataset of 728 Nordic hospitals in the … the hospital reform has improved hospital productivity using the other four major Nordic countries as controls. Hospital … each of the countries and years. Bootstrapping techniques are applied to the obtained productivity estimates to assess …

Previous studies indicate that Finnish hospitals have significantly higher productivity than in the other Nordic … countries. We decompose the productivity levels into technical efficiency, scale efficiency and country specific possibility … hospitals in the Nordic countries. We find that there are small differences in scale and technical efficiency between countries …