What Drives Individual Health Expenditure in Switzerland?

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 337-358

  Bilger, Marcel ^a   Chaze, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Box Cox; C24; D12; health expenditure; healthcare demand; hurdle models; I11

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956393181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22356282     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03399258     Document Type: Article

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