Syllabus/achievement requirements (HME4305- autumn 2010)
Books:
Rowena, J. et al. 2006. Measuring Efficiency in Health Care. Analytical Techniques and Health Policy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Smith, P. C. 2007. Formula Funding of Public Services. Routledge, London & New York.
Stiglitz, J. E. & C. E. Walsh. 2006. Principles of Microeconomics. 4th ed. Norton, New York.
Articles
Borge, Lars-Erik and J?rn Ratts? : Demographic shift, relative costs and the allocation of local public consumption in Norway, 1995. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 25: 705-726. View article.
Coelli, Timothy J., D.S. Prasado Rao, Christopher J. O'Donnell and George E. Battese : “Review of production economics”, 2005. Chapter 2 in An introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis, 2nd edition. New York: Springer. In compendium.
Falch, Torberg and J?rn Ratts? : Local public choice of school spending: disaggregating the demand function for educational services, 1999. Economics of Educational Review, 18: 361-373. View article.
Gravelle, Hugh, Matthew Sutton, Stephen Morris, Frank Windmeijer, Alastair Leyland, Chris Dibben & Mike Muirhead : “Modelling supply and demand influences on the use of health care”, 2003. Health Economics, 12:985–1004. View article.
Propper, Carol, and Deborah Wilson : The use of performance measures in health care systems, 2006. In Jones, Andrew M.: (Ed): The Elgar Companion to Health Economics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. In compendium.
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Carl E. Walsh: Principles of Microeconomics, 2002. Third edition. Chapter 6. Pages 108-131. N.Y., USA: W. In compmendium.