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Measuring and comparing the (in)efficiency of German and Swiss hospitals

Steinmann, Lukas; Dittrich, Gunnar; Karmann, Alexander; … - 2003

countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the … effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …

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Hospital policy and productivity : evidence from German states

Karmann, Alexander; Rösel, Felix - 2016

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth allows for additional health care services under restricted resources. We … examine whether hospital policy can stimulate hospital TFP growth. We exploit variation across German federal states in the … period 1993 to 2013. State governments decide on hospital capacity planning (number of hospitals, departments and beds …

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Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals : Does Ownership Matter?

Herr, Annika - 2010

hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure, and … efficient than publicly owned hospitals. The hospital rankings based on estimated efficiency scores turn out to be negatively …

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Estimating Fixed Effects Stochastic Frontier Panel Models Under ‘Wrong’ Skewness with an Application to Health Care Efficiency in Germany

Haschka, Rouven E.; Wied, Dominik - 2022

Typically, the error term in stochastic frontier models is assumed to be positively skewed; however, efficiency scores are biased if this assumption is violated. This paper considers the case in which also negative skewness is allowed in the model. In contrast to other approaches, this skewness is...

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