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Using COVD-19 Mortality to Select Among Hospital Plant Capacity Models: An Empirical Application to the Hubei Province

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  • Kristiaan KERSTENS

    (IESEG School of Management and LEM-UMR 9221)

  • Zhiyang SHEN

    (Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China)

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This contribution defines short-run as well as long-run output- and input-oriented plant capacity measures evaluated relative to convex and nonconvex technologies. All these plant capacity concepts are used to measure the use of existing capacities as well as the evolution and build-up of extra hospital capacity in the province of Hubei in China during the outbreak of the COVID- 19 epidemic in early 2020. The rather well-established fact from the medical literature that mortality rates increase with high capacity utilization rates is used to select the most plausible among these eight plant capacity concepts. It turns out that the relatively new input-oriented plant capacity concept correlates best with mortality.

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  • Kristiaan KERSTENS & Zhiyang SHEN, 2020. "Using COVD-19 Mortality to Select Among Hospital Plant Capacity Models: An Empirical Application to the Hubei Province," Working Papers 2020-EQM-04, IESEG School of Management.
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    Keywords

    : Data Envelopment Analysis; Free Disposal Hull; efficiency; plant capacity utilisation; mortality;
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