Hospitals in Norway are organized as trusts, required to follow the same accounting principles as the private sector, and responsible for funding their own investments. Thus, being able to run with a surplus has been an important part of their management. We analyze hospital budgeting for the...

Previous studies indicate that Finnish hospitals have significantly higher productivity than in the other Nordic countries. We decompose the productivity levels into technical efficiency, scale efficiency and country specific possibility sets (technical frontiers). Data have been collected on...

Ved hjelp av dataomhyllingsanalyse (DEA) beregnes utviklingen i produktivitet i de fire nordiske landene for perioden 1999 til 2004. Dernest analyseres effekten av sykehusreformen på produktiviteten i Norge ved hjelp av en regresjonsanalyse. Datamaterialet består av til sammen 729...