Efficiency comparison for directly managed public hospitals for different geographical area in Italy
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Keywords
efficiency; directly managed hospitals; m-order frontier; non-parametric tests; geographical areas comparison;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2014-09-29 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-EUR-2014-09-29 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-GER-2014-09-29 (German Papers)
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