patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …

market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … the 75th percentile would increase costs at the average hospital by nearly fifty percent. Improvements in traditional … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …

parameters of a value-added hospital production function correcting for endogenous input choices in order to assess the private … change in hospital multi-factor productivity. Not-for-profits invested more heavily and differently in IT than for …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting …

the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition … between hospitals. Patients were given choice of location for hospital care and provided information on the quality and … approximately 68,000 discharges per year per hospital from 162 hospitals. We find that the effect of competition is to save lives …

To develop new evidence on the effects of hospital ownership and other aspects of hospital market composition on health ….4 percent lower levels of hospital expenditures, but virtually the same patient health outcomes. We conclude that for …