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Analysis of Hospital Production and Cost: Economies of Scale and Scope


Using full-information maximum likelihood on a cross-section sample of 65 hospitals from seven Philippine provinces, this paper jointly estimates a two-output transcendental logarithmic variable cost function and four share equations. Results comply with the inequality conditions and the estimated function is found to be monotonic in both factor prices and outputs, concave in input prices and convex in outputs.

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