Taxes on housing consumption have attractive features. They can enhance overall efficiency, function as automatic …

Taxes on housing consumption have attractive features. They can enhance overall efficiency, function as automatic …

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

Many international institutions, including the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), have recommended … that countries adopt universal health care coverage, believing that adequate health care is a basic human right. Thailand … with implementing universal health coverage. One of the primary problems is the financial stress of public hospitals due to …

evolution of technical efficiency in the Italian health care sector. The final results provide new empirical evidence in support … of regional political institutions and the 1998 tax reform (introduction of IRAP) on the efficiency of Italian regional … governments. Both methodologies are applied to a longitudinal dataset, including financial and health care data disaggregated at …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001–2008 using the Stochastic …

The highly regarded Austrian health system delivers good quality and easily accessible services, but is costly. Its … competition opportunities are de facto limited in most health markets. The system operates therefore on a supply-driven basis, and … of good health outcomes and suffer important differences between social groups, raising risks for the future. This …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001–2008 using the Stochastic …