The specification of a hospital cost function. A comment on the recent literature.

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Journal of Health Economics

• Publication date

  1987-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics

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  DOI 10.1016/0167-6296(87)90004-XPMID 10312165
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