Farsi, Mehdi; Filippini, Massimo - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 142 (2006) I, pp. 1-37
hospitals over the four-year period between 1998 and 2001 has been analyzed. A descriptive analysis of the data casts some light … sample used for the cost frontier analysis consists of 459 observations from 156 hospitals that is, an unbalanced panel with … hospitalizations and the hospital?s outpatient revenues. Services of capital, physicians and other employees are considered as input …