Allocative inefficiency and its cost:: The case of Spanish public hospitals

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 99-111

  Rodríguez Álvarez, Ana ^a   Fernández Blanco, Víctor ^a   Lovell, C A Knox ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocative inefficiency cost; Duality theory; Greene problem; Parametric input distance function; Spanish public hospitals

Indexed keywords

COSTS; HOSPITALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

ALLOCATIVE INEFFICIENCY COST; DUALITY THEORY; GREENE PROBLEM; PARAMETRIC INPUT DISTANCE FUNCTION; SPANISH PUBLIC HOSPITALS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 5744250243     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2003.08.012     Document Type: Article

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