Determinants of transient and persistent hospital efficiency: The case of Italy
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DOI: 10.1002/hec.3557
Abstract: In this paper, we extend the 4-random-component closed skew-normal stochastic frontier model by including exogenous determinants of hospital persistent (long-run) and transient (short-run) inefficiency, separated from unobserved heterogeneity. We apply this new model to a… read more here.
Keywords: hospital; inefficiency; transiently inefficient; efficiency ... See more keywords