2025
Siciliani, L., Wen, J. and Gaughan, J., 2025. Living alone and provider behaviour in public and private hospitals. Journal of Health Economics, p.103016.
Maria Ana Matias, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani, Peter Sivey, Andrew Proctor, 2025. Socioeconomic inequalities in waiting times for breast cancer surgery, Health Economics, Volume 34, Issue 2, 203-224. http://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4906
Núñez-Elvira, A., Feng, Y., Kristensen, S.R., Lorgelly, P., Meacock, R., Siciliani, L. and Sutton, M., 2025. Does pay for performance affect socioeconomic inequalities in access? Evidence from hospital specialised care in England. Health Policy, p.105365.
Gutacker, N., Glynn, D., Mason, A., Walker, S.M., Siciliani, L. and Doran, T., 2025. Socioeconomic inequalities in disease prevalence by age and sex for 17 common long-term conditions in England: retrospective, observational study of electronic primary care records from Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Aurum. Journal of Epidemioly & Community Health, forthcoming.
2024
Hugh Gravelle, Giuseppe Moscelli, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani, 2024. Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 109, 104064, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104064
Nikita Jacob, Martin Chalkley, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani, 2024. Variation in attendance at emergency departments in England across local areas: A system under unequal pressure, Health Policy, Volume 150, December, 105186.
Jinglin Wen, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani, Andrew Proctor, 2024. Socioeconomic Inequalities in Hospital Access for Prostate Cancer before and after COVID-19, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Volume 94, August 2024, 101914.
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, Competition, quality and integrated health care, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 95, May 2024, 102880.
Feng, Y., Kristensen, S., Lorgelly, P., Meacock, R., Núñez Elvira, A., Rodes Sanchez, M., Siciliani, L., Sutton, M., Pay-for-Performance incentives for specialised services in England: a mixed methods evaluation, European Journal of Health Economics, 25, 857–876 .
2023
Smith, P. C., Sagan, A., Siciliani, L., Figueras, J., 2023. Building on Value-based Health Care: towards a Health System Perspective, Health Policy, Volume 138, December, 104918.
Brindley, C., Lomas, J. and Siciliani, L., 2023. The effect of hospital spending on waiting times. Health Economics. 32(11), 2427-2445.
Kaarboe, O. and Siciliani, L., Contracts for primary and secondary care physicians and equity-efficiency trade-offs. Journal of Health Economics, 102715.
Mercader, L., Carrilero, N., García-Altés, A., López-Casasnovas, G., & Siciliani, L. Socioeconomic Inequalities in Waiting Times for Planned and Cancer Surgery: Evidence from Spain, Health Economics, 32(5), 1181-1201.
Moscelli, G., Gravelle, H. and Siciliani, L., The effect of hospital choice and competition on inequalities in waiting times. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 205, 169-201.
Laia Bosque Mercader, Luigi Siciliani, The Association between Bed Occupancy Rates and Hospital Quality in the English National Health Service, European Journal of Health Economics, 24(2), 209 - 236.
Siciliani, L., Lafortune, G., Fujisawa, R, Vuik, S, Hewlett, E., 2023. A Review of Policies to Reduce Waiting Times for Health Services across OECD Countries, Nordic Journal of Health Economics, Volume 6(1), 162-181.
2022
Mariotti, G., Siciliani, L., Rebba, V., Coretti, S. & Gentilini, M., Consensus among clinicians on referrals’ priority and use of digital decision-making support systems, Health Policy, 126(9), 906-914..
Garcia-Altes, A., McKee, M., Siciliani, L., Pita Barros, P., Lehtonen, L., Rogers, H., Kringos, D., Zaletel, J. & De Maeseneer, J., Understanding public procurement within the health sector: a priority in a post-COVID-19 world, Health Economics, Policy and Law, 1-14.
Scott Greer, Michelle Falkenbach, Luigi Siciliani, Martin McKee, Matthias Wismar, Josep Figueras, From Health in All Policies to Health for All Policies, The Lancet Public Health, 7(8), e718-e720.
Ziad Ghandour, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, Investment and Quality Competition in Healthcare Markets, Journal of Health Economics, 102588.
Marina Di Giacomo Massimiliano Piacenza Luigi Siciliani Gilberto Turati, The Effect of Co-Payments on the Take-Up of Prenatal Tests, Journal of Health Economics, 81, 102553.
2021
Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, Hospital competition and quality for non-emergency patients in the English NHS, Rand Journal of Economics, 52(2), 382–414.
Giacomo De Luca, Domenico Lisi, Marco Martorana, Luigi Siciliani, Does higher Institutional Quality improve the Appropriateness of Healthcare Provision? Journal of Public Economics, 194, February, 104356.
Laurie Rachet-Jacquet Nils Gutacker Luigi Siciliani, Scale economies in the health sector: The effect of hospital volume on health gains from hip replacement surgery, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 190, 704-729.
David Bardey and Luigi Siciliani, Nursing Homes’ Competition and Distributional Implications when the Market is Two-Sided, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 30(2), 472-500.
Kurt Brekke, Chiara Canta, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, Hospital competition in a national health service: Evidence from a patient choice reform, Journal of Health Economics, 79, 102509.
Willy Palm, Erin Webb, Cristina Hernandez-Quevedo, Giada Scarpetti, Suszy Lessof, Luigi Siciliani, Ewout van Ginneken, Gaps in Coverage and Access in the European Union, Health Policy, 125(3), 341-350.
Rogers H, Barros P, Maeseneer J, Lehtonen L, Lionis C, McKee M, Siciliani L, Stahl D, Zaletel J, Kringos D, Resilience testing of health systems: How can it be done? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 4742.
2020
Michele Bisceglia, Roberto Cellini, Odd Rune Straume, Luigi Siciliani, Optimal dynamic volume-based price regulation, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 73, December, 102675.
Domenico Lisi, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2020. Hospital Competition under Pay-for-Performance: Quality, Mortality and Readmissions, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 29(2), 289-314.
Francesco Moscone, Luigi Siciliani, Elisa Tosetti, Giorgio Vittadini, 2020. Do Public and Private Hospitals differ in Quality? Evidence from Italy, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 83, Article 103523.
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.
James Gaughan, Luigi Siciliani, Hugh Gravelle, Giuseppe Moscelli, Do Small Hospitals have Lower Quality? Evidence from the English NHS, Social Science & Medicine, 265, November, 113500.
May van Schalkwyk, Ales Bourek, Dionne Kringos, Luigi Siciliani, Margaret Barry, Jan De Maeseneer, Martin McKee, 2020. The best person (or machine) for the job: rethinking task shifting in healthcare, Health policy, 124(12), 1379-1386.
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.
Luigi Siciliani, Claudia Wild, Martin McKee et al, 2020. Strengthening Vaccination Programmes and Health Systems in the European Union: A Framework for Action, Health Policy, 124(5), 511-518.
2019
James Gaughan, Nils Gutacker, Katja Grasic, Noemi Kreif, Luigi Siciliani, Andrew Street, 2019. Paying for Efficiency: Incentivising Same-day discharge in the English NHS, Journal of Health Economics, 68, article 102226.
Yan Feng, Søren Kristensen, Paula Lorgelly, Rachel Meacock, Marina Rodes Sanchez Luigi Siciliani Matt Sutton, 2019. Pay for Performance for Specialised Care in England: Strengths and Weaknesses, Health Policy, 123, 1036-1041.
Luis Sa, Odd Rune Straume, Luigi Siciliani, Dynamic Hospital Competition under Rationing by Waiting Times, Journal of Health Economics, 66, 260-282.
Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Hugh Gravelle, Giuseppe Moscelli, 2019. Does Hospital Competition Improve Efficiency? The effect of the Patient Choice Reform in England, Health Economics, 28, 610-640.
Odd Rune Straume, Luigi Siciliani, 2019. Competition and Equity in Health Care Markets, Journal of Health Economics, 64, 1-14.
2018
Eleonora Fichera, James Banks, Luigi Siciliani, Matt Sutton, 2018. Does Patient Health Behaviour respond to Doctor Effort? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 156, 225-251.
Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, Rita Santos, 2018. Heterogeneous effects of patient choice and hospital competition on mortality, Social Science and Medicine, 216, 50-58.
Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, 2018. A dynamic model of quality competition with endogenous price, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 94, 190-206.
Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, Nils Gutacker, 2018. The effect of hospital ownership on quality of care: evidence from England, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 153, 322-344.
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.
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume. 2018. Can competition reduce quality? Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 174(3), 421-447.
2017
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, 2017. Horizontal mergers and product quality, Canadian Journal of Economics, 50, 1063-1103.
Pau Olivella and Luigi Siciliani, 2017. Reputational Concerns with Altruistic Providers, Journal of Health Economics, 55, 1-13.
Mathias Kifmann and Luigi Siciliani, 2017. Average-cost pricing and dynamic selection incentives in the hospital sector, Health Economics, 26(12), 1566-1582.
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2017. Hospital Mergers with Regulated Prices, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119(3), 597–627.
Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Hugh Gravelle, Rita Santos, 2017. Do Hospitals Respond to Rivals’ Quality and Efficiency? A Spatial Panel Econometric Analysis, Health Economics, 26(S2), 38–62.
James Gaughan, Hugh Gravelle and Luigi Siciliani, 2017. Delayed discharges and hospital type: evidence from the English NHS, Fiscal Studies, 38(3), 495-519.
Andrea Riganti, Luigi Siciliani, Carlo Fiorio. 2017. The Effect of Waiting Times on Demand and Supply for Elective Surgery: Evidence from Italy, Health Economics, 26(S2), 92–105.
James Gaughan, Hugh Gravelle, Rita Santos and Luigi Siciliani. 2017. Long-term care provision, hospital bed blocking, and discharge destination for hip fracture and stroke patients, International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 17(3), 311–331.
Marina Di Giacomo, Massimiliano Piacenza, Luigi Siciliani, Gilberto Turati, 2017. Do Public Hospitals Respond to Changes in DRG Price Regulation? Health Economics, 26(S2), 23–37.
Luigi Siciliani, Martin Chalkley and Hugh Gravelle, 2017. Policies towards hospital and GP competition in five European countries, Health Policy, 121, 103-110.
Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Andrew Street, 2017. Are costs differences between specialist and general hospitals compensated by the prospective payment system?, The European Journal of Health Economics, 1-20.
Kurt Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume. 2017. Differential Games in Health Care Markets: Models of Quality Competition with Fixed Prices, In: Joseph Apaloo and Bruno Viscolani (Eds.), Advances in Dynamic and Mean Field Games: Theory, Applications and Numerical Methods - Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games - vol. XV, Birkhauser – Springer International Publishing, Cham Switzerland, pages 145-167.
2016
Kurt Brekke, Rosella Levaggi, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2016. Patient Mobility and Health Care Quality when Regions and Patients Differ in Income, Journal of Health Economics, 50, 372-387.
Nils Gutacker, Luigi Siciliani, Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, 2016. Choice of hospital: which type of quality matters? Journal of Health Economics, 50, 230-246.
Søren Kristensen, Luigi Siciliani, Matt Sutton, 2016. Optimal Price-Setting in Pay for Performance Schemes in Health Care, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 123, 57-77.
Jurgita Januleviciute, Jan Erik Askildsen, Oddvar Kaarboe, Luigi Siciliani, Matt Sutton, 2016. How do hospitals respond to price changes? Evidence from Norway, Health Economics, 25(5), 620–636.
Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani, Nils Gutacker, Hugh Gravelle, 2016. Location, quality and choice of hospital: evidence from England 2002-2013. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 60, 112-124.
Giuseppe Moscelli, Luigi Siciliani and Valentina Tonei, 2016. Do Waiting Times Affect Health Outcomes? Evidence from Coronary Bypass, Social Science & Medicine, 161, 151-159.
Nils Gutacker, Luigi Siciliani, Richard Cookson, 2016. Waiting Time Prioritisation: Evidence from England, Social Science & Medicine, 159, 140-151.
2015
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2015. Hospital Competition with Soft Budgets, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 117(3), 1019–1048.
James Gaughan, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, 2015. Testing the bed-blocking hypothesis: Does higher supply of nursing and care homes reduce delayed hospital discharges? Health Economics, 24(S1), 32–44.
Luigi Siciliani,2015. Pay for Performance and Quality in the Health Sector, Rivista di Politica Economica, Volume I-III, Pages 7-39 [invited paper].
2014
Kurt Brekke, Rosella Levaggi, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, 2014, Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 105, 140-157.
Hugh Gravelle, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani. Does a hospital's quality depend on the quality of other hospitals? A spatial econometrics approach, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, Volume 49, Pages 203-216.
Bruce Hollingsworth, Katharina Hauck, Anurag Sharma, Luigi Siciliani, 2014. The Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages across different Income Groups, Health Economics, 23(9), 1159–1184.
Luigi Siciliani, Valerie Moran and Michael Borowitz, Measuring and Comparing Health Care Waiting Times in OECD Countries, Health Policy, 118, 292-303.
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, 117(1), 54-63.
2013
Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume and Roberto Cellini, 2013, Quality competition with motivated providers and sluggish demand, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37, 2041-2061.
Luigi Siciliani, The Economics of Long Term Care, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Contributions, doi 10.1515/bejeap-2012-0063 (invited paper)
Michael Kuhn and Luigi Siciliani, 2013. Manipulation and Auditing of Public Sector Contracts, European Journal of Political Economy, 32, 251-267.
Miltiadis Makris and Luigi Siciliani, 2013. Optimal Incentive Schemes for Altruistic Providers, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 5(5), 675–699.
Luigi Siciliani and Anderson Stanciole, 2013. Bargaining and the provision of health services, European Journal of Health Economics, 14, 391–406.
Luigi Siciliani, Peter Sivey and Andrew Street, 2013. Differences in length of stay for hip replacement between public hospitals, specialised treatment centres and private providers: selection or efficiency?, Health Economics, 22(2), 234–242.
Anurag Sharma, Luigi Siciliani, Anthony Harris, 2013. Waiting times and socioeconomic status: does sample selection matter?, Economic Modelling, 33, 659-667.
2012
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2012. Quality competition with profit constraints, Journal of Economic Behaviour &Organization, 84, 642-659.
Luigi Siciliani, 2012. An economic assessment of price rationing versus non-price rationing of health care, Nordic Economic Policy Review, Number 2/2012.
Evangelos Kontopantelis, Tim Doran, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, Matt Sutton and Rosalind Goudie, 2012. Pay-for-performance and influenza immunization: the impact of raising the bar in the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework, Health Service Research, 47(3, part 1), 1117–1136.
Mauro Laudicella, Luigi Siciliani and Richard Cookson, 2012. Waiting times and socioeconomic status: evidence from England, Social Science and Medicine, 74(9), 1331-1341.
Elin Hafsteinsdottir and Luigi Siciliani, 2012. Hospital cost sharing incentives: evidence from Iceland, Empirical Economics, 42(2), 539-561.
Kurt Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2012. Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 21(1), 131–178.
Fabrizio Iacone, Steve Martin, Luigi Siciliani and Peter C. Smith, 2012. Estimating a dynamic model of waiting times with time series data, Applied Economics, 44(23), 2955-2968.
2011
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2011. Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113(2), 444-469.
Oddvar Kaarboe and Luigi Siciliani, 2011. Quality, Multitasking and Pay for Performance, Health Economics, 2(2), 225-238.
Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani and Andrew Street, 2011. Price adjustment in the hospital sector, Journal of Health Economics, 30(1), 112-125.
2010
Kurt Brekke, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2010. Price and quality in spatial competition, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40(6), 471-480.
Kurt Brekke, Roberto Cellini, Luigi Siciliani and Odd Rune Straume, 2010. Competition and quality in regulated markets: a differential-game approach, Journal of Health Economics, 29(4), 508-523.
Elin Hafsteinsdottir and Luigi Siciliani, 2010. DRG prospective payment systems: refine or not refine?, Health Economics, 19(10), 1226-1239.
Carlo Fiorio and Luigi Siciliani, 2010. Co-payments and the demand for pharmaceuticals: evidence from Italy, Economic Modelling, 27(4), 835-841.
Andrew Street, Peter Sivey, Anne Mason, Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani, 2010. Are English treatment centres treating less complex patients?, Health Policy, 94(2), 150-157.
2009
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, 2009, Pay for performance and motivation crowding out, Economics Letters, Volume 103, pages 68–71.
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.
Michael Kuhn and Luigi Siciliani, 2009, Performance indicators for quality with costly falsification, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 18, Issue 4, pages 1137-1154.
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.
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.
Andrew Street, Anne Mason, Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani, 2009, Should prospective payments be differentiated for public and private healthcare providers?,Health Economics, Policy and Law, Volume 4, Issue 04, pages 383-403.
2008
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.
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.
Luigi Siciliani, 2008, A note on the dynamic interaction between waiting times and waiting lists, Health Economics, Volume 17, Issue 5, pages 639-647.
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.
2007
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.
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.
2006
Luigi Siciliani, 2006, Selection of treatment under prospective payment systems in the hospital sector, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 25, Issue 3, pages 479-499.
Luigi Siciliani, 2006, A dynamic model of hospital supply of elective surgery in the presence of waiting times and waiting lists, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 25, Issue 6, pages 891-907.
Luigi Siciliani, 2006, Estimating technical efficiency in the hospital sector: a panel-data analysis, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Volume 5, Issue 2, pages 1-20.
2005
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, 2005, Does more choice reduce waiting times?, Health Economics, Volume 14, Issue 1, (January), pages 17-23.
2004
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.