Do political or economic factors drive healthcare financing privatisations? Empirical evidence from OECD countries

Rasmus Wiese
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Rasmus Wiese: Groningen University

No 13005-EEF, Research Report from University of Groningen, Research Institute SOM (Systems, Organisations and Management)

Abstract: This paper adds new empirical evidence to the political economy literature of economic reform. One of the main contributions of this paper is the development of a novel methodology to identify privatisations. The methodology is a combination of the Bai & Perron structural break filter, and validation of the breaks identified by this filter using de jure evidence of reforms. 21 de facto healthcare financing privatisations are identified in a sample of 23 OECD countries. It is analysed which factors trigger or hinder these privatisations. Robust evidence is found in favour of the

Date: 2013
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