1. Waiting times
Demand and supply
Andrea Riganti, Luigi Siciliani, Carlo Fiorio, 2017. The Effect of Waiting Times on Demand and Supply for Elective Surgery: Evidence from Italy, Health Economics, Volume 26(S2), Pages 92–105.
Fabrizio Iacone, Steve Martin, Luigi Siciliani and Peter C. Smith, 2012, Estimating a dynamic model of waiting times with time series data, Applied Economics, Volume 44, Issue 23, pages 2955-2968.
Luigi Siciliani, Anderson Stanciole and Rowena Jacobs, 2009, Do waiting times reduce hospitals’ costs?, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 28, Issue 4, pages 771-780.
Luigi Siciliani, 2007, Optimal contracts for health services in the presence of waiting times and asymmetric information, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Volume 40, pages 1-25.
Nicolai Fink Simonsen, Anne Sophie Oxholm, Søren Rud Kristensen, Luigi Siciliani, 2020. What explains differences in waiting times for health care across socioeconomic status? Health Economics, 29:1764–1785. [the study uses Danish data]
Steve Martin, Luigi Siciliani, Peter Smith, 2020. Socioeconomic Inequalities in Waiting Times for Primary Care across ten OECD countries, Social Science and Medicine, 263, 113230. [this study uses data from Commonwealth Fund Survey]
Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani, Nils Gutacker, Richard Cookson, 2018. Socioeconomic Inequality of Access to Healthcare: Does Choice Explain the Gradient? Journal of Health Economics, 57, 290-314. [the study uses data on coronary bypass in England]
Inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status
Luigi Siciliani, 2016. Waiting Times: Evidence of Social Inequalities in Access for Care, pages 1-17. In: A. Levy, S. Goring (eds.), Data and Measures in Health Services Research, Health Services Research, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-7673-4_17-1. Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Anurag Sharma, Luigi Siciliani, Anthony Harris, 2013. Waiting times and socioeconomic status: does sample selection matter?, Economic Modelling, 33, 659-667.
Mauro Laudicella, Luigi Siciliani and Richard Cookson, 2012. Waiting times and socioeconomic status: evidence from England, Social Science and Medicine, 74(9), 1331-1341.
Luigi Siciliani and Rossella Verzulli, 2009, Waiting times and socioeconomic status among elderly Europeans: Evidence from SHARE, Health Economics, Volume 18, Issue 11, pages 1295-1306.
Waiting times and health outcomes
Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani and Valentina Tonei, 2016. Do Waiting Times Affect Health Outcomes? Evidence from Coronary Bypass, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 161, pages 151-159.
Prioritisation on the waiting list
Nils Gutacker, Luigi Siciliani, Richard Cookson, 2016. Waiting Time Prioritisation: Evidence from England, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 159, pages 140-151.
Giuliano Mariotti, Luigi Siciliani, Vincenzo Rebba et al, 2014. Waiting Time Prioritisation for Specialist Services in Italy: The Homogeneous Waiting Time Groups Approach, Health Policy, Volume 117, Issue 1, pages 54-63.
Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani, 2009, Third degree waiting time discrimination: optimal allocation of a public sector healthcare treatment under rationing by waiting, Health Economics, Volume 18, Issue 8, p. 977-986.
Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani, 2008, Is waiting-time prioritisation welfare improving?, Health Economics, Volume 17, Issue 2, pages 167-184.
Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani, 2008, Ramsey waits: Allocating public health service resources when there is rationing by waiting, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 27, Issue 5, pages 1143-1154.
Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani, 2008, Optimal quality, waits and charges in health insurance, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 663-674.
Waiting time measures
Luigi Siciliani, Valerie Moran and Michael Borowitz, Measuring and Comparing Health Care Waiting Times in OECD Countries, Health Policy, 118, Pages 292-303.
Huw Dixon and Luigi Siciliani, 2009, Waiting-time targets in the healthcare sector. How long are we waiting?, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 28, pages 1081-1098.
Luigi Siciliani, 2008, A note on the dynamic interaction between waiting times and waiting lists, Health Economics, Volume 17, Issue 5, pages 639-647.
Choice and competition
Luis Sa, Odd Rune Straume, Luigi Siciliani, Dynamic Hospital Competition under Rationing by Waiting Times, Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2008, Competition and waiting times in health care markets, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 92, Issue 7, pages 1607-1628.
Luigi Siciliani and Steve Martin, 2007, An empirical analysis of the impact of choice on waiting times, Health Economics, Volume 16, Issue 8, pages 763-779.
Luigi Siciliani, 2005, Does more choice reduce waiting times?, Health Economics, Volume 14, Issue 1, (January), pages 17-23.
Policy
Luigi Siciliani and Jeremy Hurst, 2005, Tackling excessive waiting times for elective surgery: a comparison of policies in 12 OECD countries, Health Policy, Volume 72, Issue 2, pages 201-215.
Luigi Siciliani and Jeremy Hurst, 2004, Explaining waiting times variations for elective surgery across OECD countries, OECD Economic Studies, Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 96-122.
Luigi Siciliani, Michael Borowitz and Valerie Moran (Editors), 2013, Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector. What works?, OECD Report, Paris, France. Also, author of Chapter 1. Waiting Times for Health Care: A Conceptual Framework (with Michael Borowitz and Valerie Moran); Chapter 2. Measuring Waiting Times across OECD countries (with Michael Borowitz, Valerie Moran and Huw Dixon); Chapter 3. A Review of Waiting Times Policies in 13 OECD countries (with Michael Borowitz and Valerie Moran). DOI 10.1787/9789264179080-en
Reviews
Luigi Siciliani, 2014, Waiting times, in Culyer, T. Elsevier On-line Encyclopedia of Health Economics (Section: Markets in Health Care; Section Editor: Pau Olivella); Pages 468-476.
Luigi Siciliani and Tor Iversen, 2012, Waiting lists and waiting times, chapter 24, pages 259-258, Elgar Companion in Health Economics, Second Edition (edited by Andrew Jones).
Tor Iversen and Luigi Siciliani, 2011, Non-price rationing and waiting times, chapter 28, pages 1-35, The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics, Oxford University Press.