Competition and Efficiency in Health Care: An Analysis of the Italian Case

Roberto Cellini, Giacomo Pignataro and Ilde Rizzo

International Tax and Public Finance, 2000, vol. 7, issue 4, 503-519

Abstract: In this paper we look at the Italian NationalHealth System as a case study, in order to investigate whethercompetition exerts positive effects on the efficiency of hospitals.Using the DEA technique we measure the efficiency of Italianhospital production; secondly, we take a regression analysisapproach to analyse its determinants. A general conclusion stemmingout of the analysis is that competition is not a value per seand that its effects on hospitals' performance are affected bythe rules governing the health system. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000

Date: 2000
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