An increasing focus on hospital productivity has rendered a need for more thorough knowledge of cost drivers in hospitals, including a need for quantification of the impact of age, case-mix and other characteristics of patients, as well as establishment of the cost-quality relationship. The aim...

I12- health production, C33 - Models with Panel Data, Longitudinal Data, Spatial Time Series, D24 - Production, Cost, Capital, Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity, Capacity </AbstractSection> Copyright Kruse and Christensen; licensee Springer. 2013

Nitrogen emissions from agriculture are considered an important environmental problem in Denmark, motivating consideration of different tax schemes as regulatory instruments. In this article, input/output behavior of Danish pig farms is estimated with farm-level panel data using the dual profit...