This study tests several hypotheses about the relative efficiency of proprietary and nonprofit hospitals in the provision of nuclear medicine services. It also examines the effects that service rivalry among hospitals has on technical efficiency. Linear programming techniques and regression...

This note presents a formal reconciliation of two approaches to the analysis of peak and off-peak pricing. It argues that the differences reside in varying conceptions of the time period over which costs and revenues are calculated. Both versions yield formally correct solutions so that no...