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Customs union and technical efficiency
De Economist, 1982Customs unions are frequently suggested to have a salutary effect upon the efficiency of production. However, this is not part of received customs union theory. It is shown that the essence of the competitive ‘cold shower’ is very difficult to accommodate in standard theory, given its underlying theory of intrafirm behaviour, the assumed nature of ...
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Managed care and technical efficiency
Health Economics, 2002AbstractBy focusing exclusively on consumer benefit, previous studies of the effects of managed care have ignored important hospital efficiency gains. This study uses the HCUP sample of hospitals for 1992–1996 to estimate a stochastic frontier model of hospital technical efficiency.
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Technical efficiency of high technology medicine
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1989Intensive care units (ICUs) are classic examples of high technology medicine. The ICU has become an essential step in the clinical management of patients passing through a phase of critical illness, However, the costs are extremely h9gh (1% of GNP in the USA), whereas it has not ben adeqyately demonstrated that routine admission to intensive care is ...
J. F. A. Spangenberg +8 more
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Technical Efficiency of Italian Public Hospitals [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Since the late eighties the Italian National Health System, in particular hospital care, has undergone deep reforms. This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of Italian public hospitals in light of the main features of the hospital system at a regional level.
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Veblen and Technical Efficiency
Journal of Economic Issues, 1997It is well known that Thorstein Veblen accused the turn-of-the-century captains of industry of sabotage. What is not so well known is that, for Veblen, sabotage was not simply a pejorative term. By sabotage, he meant a "conscientious withdrawal of efficiency" [Veblen 1990a, 38].
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Has Competition Increased Hospital Technical Efficiency?
The Health Care Manager, 2015Hospital competition and managed care have affected the hospital industry in various ways including technical efficiency. Hospital efficiency has become an important topic, and it is important to properly measure hospital efficiency in order to evaluate the impact of policies on the hospital industry.
Keon-Hyung, Lee +3 more
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Technical efficiency of French retailers
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2008Abstract This paper analyses the technical efficiency of a sample of French generalist retailers by a two-step procedure. In the first step, four data envelopment analysis (DEA) models are used to identify the efficiency scores. This allows the ranking of the retailers to be compiled on the basis of the inputs that they use and the outputs that they ...
Perrigot, Rozenn, Barros Pestana, C.
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Ownership and Technical Efficiency of Hospitals
Medical Care, 1990The findings in this paper revealed the sample public hospitals to be more efficient relative to the sample NFP hospitals. Tight governmental control over the resources allocated to public hospitals may be one reason why these hospitals appear more efficient.
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An extended farrell technical efficiency measure
Journal of Economic Theory, 1984When the efficient subsets and isoquants of the input level sets of a production technology are not equal, the conventional Debreu-Farrell efficiency index is not a reliable indicator of the efficiency of inputs usage. On the other hand, it possesses the property of being homogeneous of degree minus one in the inputs whose efficiency level is being ...
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF MACEDONIAN PIG FARMS
2012The economic transition and market globalization processes has triggered structural changes in the Macedonian agriculture. Pig producers face challenges to meet the new market requirements and regulations which cause inefficient and less competitive production compared to foreign markets. This paper aims to identify the level of technical efficiency on
Petrovska, Marina +7 more
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