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. …

attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … as a Malmquist index decomposition in pure technical efficiency change, are analyzed for periods before and after the … reform. We implement a two-stage semi-parametric efficiency model that allows for spatial interdependence among hospitals …

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 … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals …

Typically, the error term in stochastic frontier models is assumed to be positively skewed; however, efficiency scores … all model parameters and efficiency scores can be estimated consistently regardless of positive or negative inefficiency …

efficiency improvements because efficient hospitals would attract increased funding. This paper applies stochastic frontier …, efficiency improvements were realised over this period. The results show that there was no significant change to individual … hospital efficiency levels …

Background: In recent years, measuring and evaluating the efficiency of health systems has been explored in the context … in the health sector. The study aims to quantify and compare the efficiency of OECD health systems in 2000, 2008, and … (eight-year interval). Methods: The analysis focuses on assessing the efficiency of the health systems of OECD countries over …

sector affect significantly providers’ efficiency. Because of the high variation both in the financing and in the provision … (DEA), where in the first-stage we estimate the DEA efficiency scores for all Italian hospitals and, then, in the second …. The results show a significant impact of the use of DRG-based PPS on hospital efficiency level. In particular, we find …

efficiency-enhancing mechanisms that a hospital puts in place. Finally, the research looks into some of the factors that affects … efficiency …

This study analyzed the efficiency of cholera treatment in three hospitals representative of the Ecuadorian public … health system in order to provide hospital directors and administrators and health service policy-makers with information to …