000028760 001__ 28760 000028760 005__ 20150420164341.0 000028760 0248_ $$aoai:doc.rero.ch:20120314101245-RJ$$prero_explore$$particle$$pcdu33$$pinfonet_economy$$ppreprint$$punisi 000028760 041__ $$aeng 000028760 080__ $$a33 000028760 100__ $$aDi Giorgio, Laura$$uIstituto microeconomia e economia pubblica (MecoP), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera 000028760 245__ $$9eng$$aThe impact of the institutional form on the cost efficiency of nursing homes 000028760 269__ $$c2012 000028760 300__ $$a24 p. 000028760 520__ $$9eng$$aIn Switzerland, nursing home services are mainly provided by regulated public and private nonprofit organizations. Some of them are created by local governments as foundations. This provides a unique setting to analyze the impact of the institutional form on the performance of nursing homes. We propose a model where the institutional form is represented as a legal constraint which affects managers in the decison-making process. Considering a sample of 44 Swiss Italian nursing homes over a 7-years period (1999-2005), we then disentangle persistent inefficiency due to differences in the institutional form from unobserved heterogeneity. The applied estimation strategy provides more accurate estimates of the impact of the institutional form on nursing homes efficiency, as compared to previous studies. Our results suggest that governmental nursing homes are more costly than private and public foundations. These results are consistent across different model specifications. 000028760 695__ $$9eng$$aConstant inefficiency ; unobserved heterogeneity ; nursing homes ; nonprofit ; institutional form 000028760 700__ $$aFilippini, Massimo$$uIstituto microeconomia e economia pubblica (MecoP), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera 000028760 700__ $$aMasiero, Giuliano$$uIstituto microeconomia e economia pubblica (MecoP), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera 000028760 8564_ $$fwp1203.pdf$$qapplication/pdf$$s275135$$uhttps://doc.rero.ch/record/28760/files/wp1203.pdf$$yorder:1$$zTexte intégral 000028760 918__ $$aFacoltà di scienze economiche$$bVia Giuseppe Buffi 13, CH-6904 Lugano 000028760 919__ $$aUniversità della Svizzera italiana$$bLugano$$ddoc.support@rero.ch 000028760 980__ $$aPREPRINT$$bUNISI 000028760 990__ $$a20120314101245-RJ