private and public healthcare systems. Healthcare technology is not an exogenous variable as is usually assumed. In a complete …

Despite the claim that technology has been one of the most important drivers of healthcare spending growth over the … past decades, technology variables are rarely introduced explicitly in cost equations. Furthermore, technology is often … considered exogenous. Using 1996-2007 panel data on Swiss geographical areas, we assessed the impact of technology availability …

Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain … variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how … adoption is affected by bias in the perceived skill to implement the technology. We develop a Bayesian framework in which the …