Measuring and Explaining Technical Efficiency of Greek Public hospitals

Roxani Karagiannis and Michalis Hatziprokopiou
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Michalis Hatziprokopiou: Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, http://www.uom.gr/index.php?tmima=3

Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics, University of Macedonia

Abstract: This paper presents estimates of technical efficiency for Greek public hospitals using a non-neutral stochastic production frontier. In particular a translog production frontier is estimated for a panel data of 105 public hospitals over the period 1992-93. The estimated efficiency is found to be quite low, around 55%, and there is no great dispersion in efficiency scores. If we want to highlight the profile of inefficient public hospitals in Greece we can say that these are either the small or large units with a quite long treatment period.

Keywords: Technical Efficiency; Stochastic Frontier Analysis; hospitals; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-12, Revised 2007-12
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