Health care expenditure in the oecd countries: efficiency and regulation

Pablo Hernández de Cos and Enrique Moral-Benito

No 1107, Occasional Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: The containment of health care expenditure is one of the major challenges facing public policymakers in the developed countries. This paper provides evidence of significant differences in the cross-country level of efficiency of health care expenditure, meaning that potential cost savings for the countries considered least efficient might be very high. Further, a significant relationship is found between the various health care policies and institutions in the OECD countries and the efficiency levels of health care systems. The findings are, however, highly sensitive to the efficiency-estimation methodology used.

Keywords: Health care expenditure; efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H51 I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2011-12
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