On the international stability of health care expenditure functions: are government and private functions similar?

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The stability of health care expenditure functions in a sample of OECD countries is studied that shows a long-term relationship between total health care expenditure (HCE) and gross domestic product (GDP). The results provide evidence against the existence of a unique relationship between health and GDP concluding the differences in healthy systems that may cause differences in the government and the private functions.

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Stationarity of health expenditures and GDP: evidence from panel unit root tests with heterogeneous structural breaks

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Using the econometric techniques in panel unit root tests, the time series properties of per-capita real health care expenditures (HE) and per-capita real GDP in a panel sitting are analyzed. Recently developed panel LM unit root test that allows heterogeneous level shifts, shows a reject on the root null hypothesis for both series.

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On estimators of medical costs with censored data

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The two forms of estimator whose use depends on the detail with which cost information is available on individual patients are presented. The theoretical connections between the two most widely used growing range of nonparametric estimators of costs under censoring are examined.

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