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 … find not-for-profit ownership and a presence of a specialized center in a hospital to be detrimental to hospital …

of hospital efficiency to be carried out. This paper, therefore, relies on selected evidence to compare hospital … standard hospital treatments; ii) overall efficiency levels in a set of paired countries; iii) within-country dispersion in … individual hospital efficiency. The analysis suggests substantial cross-country differences in hospital performance. Although …

expectation of achieving cost efficiency gains. This article examines whether theoretical expectations of cost efficiency gains … parameter frontier model, cost efficiency gains are found, particularly with a payment per patient case system. Payment systems …

correction in the estimation of hospital performance. -- Hospital efficiency ; unobserved heterogeneity ; Bayesian inference …. However, the standard cost frontier model yields biased efficiency scores because it ignores technological heterogeneity … between hospitals. In this paper, efficiency scores are derived from a random intercept and an extended random parameter …

expectation of achieving cost efficiency gains. This article examines whether theoretical expectations of cost efficiency gains … parameter frontier model, cost efficiency gains are found, particularly with a payment per patient case system. Payment systems … Switzerland. -- hospital inefficiency ; prospective payment system ; Bayesian inference ; stochastic frontier analysis …

correction in the estimation of hospital performance …. However, the standard cost frontier model yields biased efficiency scores because it ignores technological heterogeneity … between hospitals. In this paper, efficiency scores are derived from a random intercept and an extended random parameter …

Typically, the error term in stochastic frontier models is assumed to be positively skewed; however, efficiency scores … inefficiency in the market. The paper discusses estimation of a stochastic frontier panel model with unobserved fixed effects. On … accurate enough for maximum likelihood estimation. Simulations assess finite sample performances of estimators and show that …

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