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Pierre Ouellette

Université de Moncton
Verified email at umoncton.ca
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Health care spending as determinants of health outcomes

PY Crémieux, P Ouellette, C Pilon - Health economics, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
This paper revisits the relationship between health care spending and health outcomes.
While previous researchers found it difficult to establish such a relationship based on …

The monastery as a restorative environment

P Ouellette, R Kaplan, S Kaplan - Journal of environmental psychology, 2005 - Elsevier
This study of the restorative benefits of a retreat experience at a Benedictine monastery was
based on questionnaire responses by 521 visitors. Factor analysis of the reasons for coming …

Public and private pharmaceutical spending as determinants of health outcomes in Canada

PY Crémieux, MC Meilleur, P Ouellette… - Health …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
An Erratum has been published for this article in Health Economics; 14 (2): 117 (2005).
Canadian per capita drug expenditures increased markedly in recent years and have …

Technological change and efficiency in the presence of quasi-fixed inputs: A DEA application to the hospital sector

P Ouellette, V Vierstraete - European Journal of Operational Research, 2004 - Elsevier
Quasi-fixed inputs are present in virtually all sectors of the economy and cannot be adjusted
to their optimal value even in the long-run. This constraint must be incorporated in models to …

Houses of worship as restorative environments

TR Herzog, P Ouellette, JR Rolens… - Environment and …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
This study of the restorative benefits of visiting a house of worship was based on
questionnaire responses by 781 participants. Factor analysis of motivations for visiting …

Introducing regulation in the measurement of efficiency, with an application to the Canadian air carriers industry

P Ouellette, P Petit, LP Tessier-Parent… - European Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a method to measure efficiency in highly regulated capital-intensive
industries in the presence of state-owned enterprises. We generalize the data envelopment …

Productivity, efficiency, and technical change of Tunisian schools: A bootstrapped Malmquist approach with quasi-fixed inputs

H Essid, P Ouellette, S Vigeant - Omega, 2014 - Elsevier
In this study, we measure the productivity of high schools in Tunisia over the period
2000/2001–2003/2004 using a Malmquist productivity index that we decompose into …

Investment and dynamic DEA

P Ouellette, L Yan - Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2008 - Springer
A dynamic version of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is developed in the present paper.
Our model introduces investment in traditional DEA and imposes intertemporal cost …

Pharmacoeconomics and health policy: current applications and prospects for the future

PE Greenberg, A Arcelus, HG Birnbaum… - …, 1999 - Springer
The use of pharmacoeconomic tools has grown dramatically in the past decade as provision
of healthcare throughout the industrialised world has required increased cost …

Measuring efficiency of Tunisian schools in the presence of quasi-fixed inputs: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis approach

H Essid, P Ouellette, S Vigeant - Economics of Education Review, 2010 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a
statistical data envelopment analysis (DEA)-bootstrap approach with quasi-fixed inputs to …