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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2009

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...

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INCOMPLETE INFORMATION AND ROBUSTNESS IN STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTS

Penta, Antonio - 2010

Game theoretic modeling involves making assumptions on agents' infinite hierarchies of beliefs. These assumptions are understood to be only approximately satisfied in the actual situation. Thus, the significance of game theoretic predictions depend on robustness properties of the solution...

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Ties that Bind: The Kin System as a Mechanism of Income-Hiding between Spouses in Rural Ghana

Castilla, Carolina - 2011

I present a simple model of intra-household allocation between spouses to show that when the quantity of resources available to the household is not perfectly observed by both spouses, hiding of income can occur even when revelation of the additional resources increases bargaining power. From...

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Intra-Household Resource Management Structure and Income-Hiding under Incomplete Information

Castilla, Carolina - 2010

There is evidence that some multi-person households may withhold income transfers, such as bonuses, gifts, and cash transfers, from other members of the household (Ashraf (2009); Vogler and Pahl, (1994)). In this paper, I show that the incentives to hide income under incomplete information...

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Benchmarking Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in the delivery of preventive health services: comparison of methods

Doebbeling, B. N.; Vaughn, T. E.; Woolson, R. F.; … - 2002

were calculated for 138 VAMCs. Percentile ranks for each outcome were assigned. Two approaches were used for benchmarking … facilities (n = 16) was 3 or less. EPRP and 1998 VHS data demonstrated that the survey measures and benchmarking approaches were …

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Benchmarking Excellence Among Accredited Economic Development Organizations

Wilkins, Joy; King, Dana; Garvey, Blair; Lytle, Andrea - 2009

In search of competitive excellence, economic developers often ask for guidance and assistance on key enterprise management and operational issues relating to running a quality economic development program. They are interested in operating as effectively as possible, in making the highest...

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Benchmarking Quality Management Among Accredited Economic Development Organizations

Wilkins, Joy; Aton, Carol - 2006

In search of competitive excellence, economic developers often ask for guidance and assistance on key enterprise management and operational issues relating to running a quality economic development program. They re interested in operating as effectively as possible, in yielding the highest...

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Creating a sense of 'closure': Providing confidence intervals on some recent estimates of Indigenous populations

Hunter, Boyd; Dungey, Mardi - 2003

alternative method of benchmarking the Indigenous population, and hence provide an appreciation of the reliability and bias of …

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Articulating and comparing standards through benchmarking of assessment

Booth, Sara; Melano, Anne; Sainsbury, Heather; Woodley, Lynn - 2011

. This paper presents their cross-institutional benchmarking relationship as a case study in building the necessary trust … developed by an ALTC Teaching Quality Indicators Project team. UTAS and UOW had formerly been involved in a trial benchmarking … to the development of their benchmarking policy and processes. The focus on assessment ensured the project would explore …

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From Focus on Price to the Pyramid of Innovation, Information, Cooperation, Value and Trust: A Success Story of Five Swedish Building Material Manufacturers

Jan Sundquist - Halmstad Universitet - 2010

This is a reprint from vol 8 no 2 which has not previously beeen available electronically.In the building sector, value for the customer, is often regarded as being value for money and this, in turn, is achieved by means of competitive tendering. However, there are companies that also focus on...

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