efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … insignificant on the productive efficiency of health centres. … contrast to earlier studies, this paper approaches the economies of scale issue by analysing the break-ups of municipal health …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …

We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA … efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach … associated with an increase in efficiency of between 3.2 and 5.4%. We defined four alternative post-privatization periods and …

efficiently. - economic efficiency in health care ; data envelopment analysis ; Tobit regression …The Swedish health care system is to a large extent publicly managed by 21 local county councils. During recent years … who has a large proportion of health care performed by alternative producers are more economically efficient than other …

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question … how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor … hospitals. -- Hospital efficiency ; ownership ; stochastic frontier analysis ; profit function …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. -- Efficiency ; hospitals ; stochastic frontier analysis …

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question … how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor …

This chapter presents an overview of the US health insurance market, reviews health insurance research literature, and … examines premiums, medical expenses, medical service utilization, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency measures of … health insurers from different perspectives. Results indicate that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, bent the …

raise health care spending efficiency. …This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also presents new comparative data … on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries. This set of indicators allows the empirical characterisation …