Quality
Laia Bosque Mercader, Luigi Siciliani, 2023. The Association between Bed Occupancy Rates and Hospital Quality in the English National Health Service, European Journal of Health Economics, 24(2), 209 - 236.
Giacomo De Luca, Domenico Lisi, Marco Martorana, Luigi Siciliani, 2021. Does higher Institutional Quality improve the Appropriateness of Healthcare Provision? Journal of Public Economics, 194, February, 104356.
Laurie Rachet-Jacquet Nils Gutacker Luigi Siciliani, 2021. 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.
James Gaughan, Luigi Siciliani, Hugh Gravelle, Giuseppe Moscelli, 2020. Do Small Hospitals have Lower Quality? Evidence from the English NHS, Social Science & Medicine, 265, November, 113500.
Incentives and DRG price regulation
Oxholm, A.S., L. Bjørnskov Pedersen, D. Gyrd-Hansen, L. Siciliani, 2026. What motivates (un)satisfied physicians? Social Science and Medicine, Volume 400, July 2026, 119263.
Kaarboe, O. and Siciliani, L., 2023. Contracts for primary and secondary care physicians and equity-efficiency trade-offs. Journal of Health Economics, 102715.
Michele Bisceglia, Roberto Cellini, Odd Rune Straume, Luigi Siciliani, 2020. Optimal dynamic volume-based price regulation, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 73, December, 102675.
Marina Di Giacomo, Massimiliano Piacenza, Luigi Siciliani, Gilberto Turati, 2017. Do Public Hospitals Respond to Changes in DRG Price Regulation? Health Economics, 26(S2), Pages 23–37.
Mathias Kifmann and Luigi Siciliani, 2017. Average-cost pricing and dynamic selection incentives in the hospital sector, Health Economics, 26(12), 1566-1582.
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.
Hospital casemix
Andrew Street, Peter Sivey, Anne Mason, Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani, 2010, Are English treatment centres treating less complex patients?, Health Policy, Volume 94, Issue 2, pages 150-157.
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.
Differential Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) prices across providers
Francesco Longo, Luigi Siciliani, Andrew Street, 2019. Are costs differences between specialist and general hospitals compensated by the prospective payment system?, The European Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.
Marisa Miraldo, Luigi Siciliani and Andrew Street, 2011, Price adjustment in the hospital sector, Journal of Health Economics, 30(1), 112-125.
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, 4(4), 383-403.
Optimal design of hospital payment (contract theory)
Michael Kuhn and Luigi Siciliani, 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, 15(5), 675–699.
Elin Hafsteinsdottir and Luigi Siciliani, 2010, DRG prospective payment systems: refine or not refine?, Health Economics, 19(10), 1226-1239.
Luigi Siciliani, 2006, Selection of treatment under prospective payment systems in the hospital sector, Journal of Health Economics, 25(3), 479-499.
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, 40, 1-25.
Emergency care
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.
Bargaining
Luigi Siciliani and Anderson Stanciole, 2013, Bargaining and the provision of health services, European Journal of Health Economics, 14, 391–406.
Technical efficiency
Luigi Siciliani, 2006, Estimating technical efficiency in the hospital sector: a panel-data analysis, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 5(2), 1-20.