Hospital Industry Restructuring and Input Substitutability: Evidence from a Sample of Italian Hospitals
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Keywords
Public health care expenditure; Hospital industry downsizing; Input substitutability;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- L32 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2007-12-08 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HEA-2007-12-08 (Health Economics)
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