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No 2006:9:
Heterogenety in hospitals responses to a financial reform: A random coefficient analysis of the impact of activity-based financing on efficiency
Biørn Eric ()
, Terje P. Hagen ()
, Tor Iversen ()
and Jon Magnussen ()
Abstract: The paper examines the heterogeneity with respect to the
impact of a financial reform - Activity Based Financing (ABF) - on hospital
efficiency in Norway. Measures of technical efficiency and of
cost-efficiency are considered. The data set is from a contiguous ten-year
panel of 47 hospitals covering both pre-ABF years and years after its
imposition. Substantial heterogeneity in the responses, as measured by both
estimated and predicted coefficients, is found. Rank correlations between
the estimated/predicted coefficients of the ABF dummy and the
pre-ABF/post-ABF efficiencies are examined. Overall, improvement seems to
be more pronounced in technical efficiency than in cost-efficiency.
Keywords: Health econometrics; Panel data; Hospital efficiency; Activity-based financing; Random coefficients; Heterogeneity; Rank Correlation; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: C23; C33; H51; I12; I18; (follow links to similar papers)
37 pages, June 4, 2009
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