Bailing out expectations and public health expenditure

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 305-321

  Bordignon, Massimo ^a,b   Turati, Gilberto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health care expenditure; Intergovernmental relationships; Soft budget constraint

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; FINANCIAL PROVISION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; MODELING; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ALGORITHMS; BUDGETS; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; ITALY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 62049085596     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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