Shawna Patricia Grosskopf is Professor Emerita of Economics at Oregon State. She is the an Associate Editor for Journal of Productivity Analysis and has an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University. She was ranked 107th in the US in 2022 World's Best Economics and Finance Scientists and was appointed by the Swedish Parliament to the Kersten Hesselgren chair in 1996. Vivian Valdmanis is a retired Professor with over thirty years in health economics. She has published over eighty papers and chapters on hospital ownership and productivity, efficiency and plant capacity of hospitals and long-term care facilities. She has held affiliations with Erasmus University, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Valentin Zelenyuk is a Australian Research Council Future Fellow Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, where he also was Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017–2022). He is an elected member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth of NBER, as well as an Associate Editor for Journal of Productivity Analysis, and has co-authored over 70 publications in journals and books.
'Health and healthcare are among the most important subjects of economic analysis. In this collection, the authors have assembled and contributed to a vast trove of authoritative theory and evidence on performance analysis in healthcare, from the production (goal achievement) and cost (cost effectiveness) points of view. Health economics practitioners will find a wealth of useful results. More general analysts of productivity and efficiency will see a neatly focused application of contemporary methodology.' William H. Greene, University of South Florida and New York University