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On the Efficiency of Public, Welfare and Private Hospitals in Germany Over Time - A Sectoral DEA-Study
Helmig, Bernd; Lapsley, Irvine - 2007
This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public … hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The absolute efficiency of the hospital sector … results suggest that ownership affects efficiency as measured here: (1) public, welfare and private hospital sectors have …
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Does the Extent of Per-Case Payment System Affect Hospital Efficiency? Evidence from the Italian NHS
Cavalieri, Marina; Guccio, Calogero; Lisi, Domenico; … - 2014
. The results show a significant impact of the use of DRG-based PPS on hospital efficiency level. In particular, we find … global budgeting. In this paper we investigate whether the different reimbursement systems adopted in the Italian hospital … sector affect significantly providers’ efficiency. Because of the high variation both in the financing and in the provision …
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Are Nonprofits Efficient? A Test Using Hospital Market Values
Gertler, Paul J.; Kuan, Jennifer W. - 2014
hospital market values measured by sales prices. We ask whether the market for corporate control views nonprofits as less …
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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition
Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001
microeconomic point of view. We introduce two measures of production efficiency (the technical and the allocative efficiency) and …-92), firms’ profits showed the first signs of dependency on efficiency. This fact can be taken as evidence of the creation of a …
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Agency and Control Problems in US Corporations: The Case of Energy-efficient Investment Projects
Decanio, Stephen - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 1 (1994) 1, pp. 105-124
Private sector corporations in the United States fall short of their potential to increase shareholders'1 wealth in a number of ways. One example is the failure to undertake profitable energy conservation investments. Explanations of this phenomenon include agency and moral hazard problems,...
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Efficient Organization of Production : Nested Versus Horizontal Outsourcing
Shy, Oz; Stenbacka, Rune - 2009
The authors characterize equilibrium and efficient modes of production by comparing nested (vertical) outsourcing with horizontal outsourcing. Nested outsourcing is found to be inefficient unless the cost of monitoring outsourced production lines increases sharply with the number of...
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Efficient organization of production : nested versus horizontal outsourcing
Shy, Oz; Stenbacka, Rune - 2009
The authors characterize equilibrium and efficient modes of production by comparing nested (vertical) outsourcing with horizontal outsourcing. Nested outsourcing is found to be inefficient unless the cost of monitoring outsourced production lines increases sharply with the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879141
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Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Kraft, Kornelius - 2021
We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour hoarding costs of co-determination are probably highest, and the panel is too short to capture the...
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Monopsony Abuse or Efficient Purchasing? Quality Measurement in the Tobacco Leaf Market
Hanssen, F. Andrew - 2010
In the recent case of Deloach v. Philip Morris, plaintiff tobacco growers accused the major cigarette manufacturers of using unusually structured tobacco auctions to engage in monopsony collusion. The DeLoach case produced one of the largest antitrust settlements ever. The objective of this...
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