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Applied Economics Letters Volume 3, 1996 - Issue 7
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Hospital costs in Catalonia: a stochastic frontier analysis

Adam Wagstaff School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QN, UK
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Guillem López Department of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University, Balmes 132, 08008, Barcelona, Spain
Pages 471-474 | Received 03 Jul 1995, Published online: 02 Nov 2006

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