The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It … efficiency. The findings of SFA lend empirical evidences to what the literature says about the health devolution experience in … inefficiency. These issues should be addressed to fully reap the potential benefits (e.g., efficiency gains) from fiscal …

issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual … subject to spatial dependence, rendering any analysis biased that aims at identifying the determinants of efficiency … differentials. We address this issue by specifying a spatial auto- regressive model to explain efficiency scores for German …

Lebensqualität und der Wohlfahrt. Die Gesundheitsversorgung erfolgt in den meisten Ländern nicht ausschließlich über private Märkte … Zugang zu gleicher Gesundheitsversorgung für alle Menschen. Somit werden im Gesundheitswesen nicht nur wirtschaftliche … Effizienzziele, sondern auch Verteilungs- und Umverteilungsziele verfolgt. Qualität und Effizienz lassen sich daher nur unter …

expectation of achieving cost efficiency gains. This article examines whether theoretical expectations of cost efficiency gains … parameter frontier model, cost efficiency gains are found, particularly with a payment per patient case system. Payment systems …

issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e., at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than … efficiency differentials. We address this issue by specifying a spatial autoregressive model to explain efficiency scores for … efficiency analyses based on regional data.This holds, in particular, for the role of the states in the efficiency of health …