Cost e⁄ciency inprimary care contracting: a stochastic frontier cost function approach

Cost efficiency in primary care contracting: a stochastic frontier cost function approach.

The principal aim of this paper is to estimate a stochastic frontier cost function and an inefficiency effects model in the analysis of the primary health-care services purchased by the public authority and supplied by 180 providers in 1996 in Catalonia. The evidence from our sample does not support the premise that contracting out has helped improve purchasing cost efficiency in primary care. ...

Comparative Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Partially non-parametric and Stochastic Frontier Parametric Methods Case Study: Measuring Cost Efficiency in Wheat Production in Iran

Estimating the Impact on E¢ ciency of the Adoption of a Voluntary Environmental Standard: An Empirical Study of the Global Copper Mining Industry

This paper uses data on the world’s copper mining industry to measure the impact on e¢ ciency of the adoption of the ISO 14001 environmental standard. Anecdotal and case study literature suggests that …rms are motivated to adopt this standard so as to achieve greater e¢ ciency through changes in operating procedures and processes. Using plant level panel data from 19922007 on most of the world’...

Measuring Potential Efficiency Gains from Deregulation of Electricity Generation: a Bayesian Approach

This paper examines the efŽ ciency of electric power generation plants in the United States. A 1996 data set from the Utility Data Institute and county-level wage data from the Bureau of Labor statistics provide the information needed to construct measures of cost, output, and input prices for 78 steam plants using natural gas as the primary fuel. This paper uses a Bayesian stochastic frontier ...

Measuring Market Power in the Iranian Banking Industry According to the Boone Efficient-based Approach

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the structure of the Iranian banking system and to measure the market power factor based on the Boone approach. In this paper, we investigated the Iranian organized money market, including 18 banks operating in the period of 2008-2015. To calculate the marginal cost (MC), we used a Translog Stochastic Frontier Cost Function. Findings based on the ...