Is health care expenditure across Europe converging? Findings from the application of a nonlinear panel unit root test

doi:10.1007/s40821-014-0014-9

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题名	Is health care expenditure across Europe converging? Findings from the application of a nonlinear panel unit root test
作者	Lau，Chi Keung Marco 1; Fung，Ka Wai Terence 2; Pugalis，Lee 1
发表日期	2014-12-01
发表期刊	Eurasian Business Review
ISSN/eISSN	1309-4297
卷号	4 期号:2 页码:137-156
摘要	Uneven patterns of health care expenditure are a prominent feature of late capitalist society. Across Europe, spearheaded by European Union (EU) economic integration, there continues to be debate concerning health care expenditure and, more specifically, to what extent there has been an apparent convergence or divergence. The extant literature is contradictory, inconclusive and potentially misleading, characterised as a ‘mixed bag’. Therefore, as a means of resolving some of these tensions, this paper tests the hypothesis that health care expenditure per capita has converged. Departing from a conceptual review of key factors influencing health care expenditure, this paper applies a non linear time series test to longitudinal data for 14 EU countries for the period 1970–2008. This paper fills a notable research gap by better accounting for the existence of nonlinearity in the growth dynamics of health care expenditure by utilising the nonlinear panel unit root test. Using different reference countries, we cannot reject the null hypothesis of unit root-evidence against the notion of convergence. This generates some notable policy implications and raises issues for those researching this topic.
关键词	EU health reform Health care expenditures Nonlinear panel unit root tests
DOI	10.1007/s40821-014-0014-9
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语种	英语English
Scopus入藏号	2-s2.0-84962105111
引用统计	被引频次：20[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://repository.uic.edu.cn/handle/39GCC9TT/6483
专题	北师香港浸会大学
通讯作者	Lau，Chi Keung Marco
作者单位	1.Newcastle Business School,Northumbria University,Newcastle upon Tyne,United Kingdom 2.Division of Business and Management,United International College,Zhuhai,China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lau，Chi Keung Marco,Fung，Ka Wai Terence,Pugalis，Lee. Is health care expenditure across Europe converging? Findings from the application of a nonlinear panel unit root test[J]. Eurasian Business Review, 2014, 4(2): 137-156.
APA	Lau，Chi Keung Marco, Fung，Ka Wai Terence, & Pugalis，Lee. (2014). Is health care expenditure across Europe converging? Findings from the application of a nonlinear panel unit root test. Eurasian Business Review, 4(2), 137-156.
MLA	Lau，Chi Keung Marco,et al."Is health care expenditure across Europe converging? Findings from the application of a nonlinear panel unit root test". Eurasian Business Review 4.2(2014): 137-156.