Medical technology and the production of health care

Empirical Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 395-411

  Baltagi, Badi H ^a,b   Moscone, Francesco ^c   Tosetti, Elisa ^c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care production; Health expenditure; Life expectancy; Spatial dependence

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; INNOVATION; OECD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 84857923243     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-011-0472-1     Document Type: Article

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