The present article deals with the theme of efficiency in healthcare and especially technical efficiency in psyaciatric … technical efficiency for each group. We present a possible assesment method, which provides an opportunity for improving … efficiency in the sector. …

This paper aims to provide a general overview of the health care sector reform in Colombia, which introduced the market … development of the health care sector in Colombia up to 2005. …

influence of the congestion effect on efficiency. The heavy burden of the health sector on the state budget brings about the …The health care services have been characterised by a growing demand by the citizens leading to the need of more and … interest of research over its efficiency. This paper aims to assess the performance of the Portuguese hospitals and …

This paper is devoted to econometric analysis of broadband adoption efficiency in EU member states. Stochastic frontier … models are widely used for efficiency estimation. We enhanced the stochastic frontier model by adding a spatial component … broadband adoption efficiency. We confirmed a negative impact of average prices of broadband services on broadband adoption in a …

health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

banks - as issuers of cash and as institutions with a mandate to foster the efficiency of payment systems in general. It is … greater emphasis on improving the efficiency of retail payments and less on protecting their self-interest. More concretely …

spot to futures. Risk constancy or neutrality, equality of risk premium and spot price, and efficiency were rejected for … the period 18, 51, and 33 weeks or more to maturity. However, simultaneity of risk neutrality and efficiency was accepted …

efficiency is in place. Here we address the question of technical efficiency with respect to university’s size. The crucial … concept in this analysis is conditional efficiency and the ratio of size-conditional to unconditional efficiency measures. In … particular we take use of robust order-m efficiency scores presented in Cazals, Florens and Simar (2002) and generalized in …