Demand Uncertainty and Hospital Costs: an Application to Portuguese NHS Hospitals
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Keywords
hospitals; demand uncertainty; cost function;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2013-07-28 (Efficiency & Productivity)
- NEP-EUR-2013-07-28 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HEA-2013-07-28 (Health Economics)
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