This paper analyzes the most important determinants of healthcare efficiency across OECD countries. As previously documented in the literature, we first provide evidence of significant differences in the cross-country level of efficiency in healthcare provision. We then investigate how improvements in efficiency can be achieved by considering alternative efficiency indices (parametric and non-parametric) and a novel dataset with information on the characteristics of healthcare systems across OECD countries. Our empirical findings suggest a positive correlation between policies such as increasing the regulation of prices billed by providers and reducing the degree of gate keeping and the efficiency of national healthcare systems. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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de Cos, P. H., & Moral-Benito, E. (2014). Determinants of health-system efficiency: Evidence from OECD countries. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 14(1), 69–93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-013-9140-7
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