An outlier-robust extreme bounds analysis of the determinants of health-care expenditure growth
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2012-07Type
- Working Paper
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Hartwig (2008) has presented empirical evidence that the difference between real wage growth and productivity growth at the macroeconomic level is a robust explanatory variable for deflated health-care expenditure growth in OECD countries. In this paper, we test whether this finding is robust to the inclusion of additional covariates, applying different versions of Extreme Bounds Analysis (EBA) to data for 33 OECD countries over the period 1970-2010. As far as it is statistically feasible, all macroeconomic and institutional determinants of health-care expenditure growth that have been suggested in the literature are included in the EBA. Furthermore, we analyse to what extent outliers in the data influence the results using an outlier-robust MM estimator. Our results confirm Hartwig’s earlier finding. A number of additional both covariate- and outlier-robust determinants are also identified. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-007337182Publication status
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KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH ZurichSubject
ECONOMETRICS AND ECONOMETRIC MODELS (OPERATIONS RESEARCH); PRODUCTIVITY/ECONOMIC QUESTIONS; GESUNDHEITSÖKONOMIE + GESUNDHEITSAUSGABEN; Health-care expenditure; Extreme Bounds Analysis; HEALTH ECONOMY + HEALTH COSTS; MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE OECD (ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT); OECD-MITGLIEDSLÄNDER (ORGANISATION FÜR WIRTSCHAFTLICHE ZUSAMMENARBEIT); PRODUKTIVITAET/PREISBESTIMMENDE FAKTOREN (WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK); REAL WAGE; MM estimator; ‘Unbalanced growth’; ÖKONOMETRIE UND ÖKONOMETRISCHE MODELLE (OPERATIONS RESEARCH); MAKROÖKONOMISCHE MODELLE (OPERATIONS RESEARCH); OECD panel; MACROECONOMIC MODELS (OPERATIONS RESEARCH); REALLOEHNEOrganisational unit
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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