Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1980

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Stronge, William B.

Abstract

The theoretical specification of empirical issues associated with statistical cost functions are reviewed. This is followed by a review of the major works in the field of hospital cost function estimation. The final chapter contains an econometric estimation of cost functions for Florida hospitals in 1976. Included are estimations of total and average cost functions specified as functions of output alone. Additional variables are added to the specification of the average cost function including: speed of production; product heterogeneity; urbanization; control of the hospital and the interactions of control with speed of production; and product complexity. These variables significantly improve the explanatory power of the function which results in an inverted L-shaped curve.

Extent

62 p.

Comments

College of Business|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1980.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|College of Business

Identifier

FADT14012

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