Economies Of Scale In The Swiss Nursing Home Industry

Massimo Filippini

No 9901, SOI - Working Papers from Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich

Abstract: This paper examines costs in the Swiss nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers because of the explosion of elderly care costs and the aging of the population. The paper considers estimation of a translog cost function employing panel data for a sample of 36 nonprofit nursing homes operating in Ticino, a canton of Switzerland, over the period 1993-1995. Using a set of dummy variables quality differences are considered. The results of this analysis indicate the existence of economies of scale for most output levels.

Keywords: nursing homes; Switzerland; panel data; cost function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C49 I11 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 1999-01
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Published in Applied Economic Letters 8(1), 2001, pages 43-46

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