Ways to regulate French public hospitals? The purpose of this paper is to study hospital costs in the event of introduction of a Prospective Payment System in France. We use a nested three dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) in order to identify hospital unobservable heterogeneity and a...

This paper studies the relationship between the diffusion of innovative procedures for the treatment of heart attack and the distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. Using a sample of 5,681 stays observed in French publics hospitals, we use micro-simulation techniques in order to...

The issue is the real effect of the hospital type on the mortality rate. The statistical results on the mortality rate by hospital type (ownership and system of reimbursement) can lead to tremendous misinterpretations. According to statistical results we could conclude that the incentive created...